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Novel About My Wife

9 Oct 2009

MONTANA MEDAL WINNER - FICTION 2009

Novel About My Wife - Emily Perkins

Bloomsbury, ISBN 978-074759-650-9  $27.99 pbk

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she’s being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann’s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives.

Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.

Emily Perkins Emily Perkins was born in Christchurch in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl.

Emily Perkins was the 2006 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow.  She used the fellowship to work on Novel About My Wife (Bloomsbury, 2008). She lives in Auckland.

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