The Senator's Wife

A commercial success in America, The Senator's Wife appeared on the bestseller lists across the country, including the New York Times bestseller list (highest position was number 7) While I Was Gone has been re-jacketed with a companion look to support the launch of The Senator's Wife in paperback. For fans of Anne Tyler and Julie Myerson

Even the most public marriages have their secretsMaybe some people just like to keep things private. Secret, I guess you'd say. Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead. Nathan, however, is boyishly excited that their next-door neighbour is the eminent Senator Tom Naughton, a political hero of his, now in his seventies. The Senator is nowhere to be seen, but Meri strikes up an unexpected friendship with his wife, the elegant Delia, sensing that she has much to learn from her - about marriage, love and motherhood. But soon she comes close to a terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything.