Synopses & Reviews
From the outside, the Knowles family appeared to have it all--a loving marriage, two beautiful children, a home in an idyllic part of the countryside in upstate New York. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice, his wife, Annie, teaches at a local college. But Annie's role as the doctor's wife has worn thin, and Michael has answered the call of an old flame to moonlight at the local women's health center, the city's only provider of abortions. These subtle cracks in their life widen when anonymous threats arrive at their home. The reason for this intimidation is not at all clear--is it, as seems to be the case, the work of religious extremists opposed to what Michael is doing? Or are these violent warnings meant for Annie? For she has made at least one certain enemy in town--Lydia Haas, the painter's wife, a distrubed young woman with a cellar full of her own dark secrets. Told in the alternating viewpoints of Michael, Annie, Simon, and Lydia--four fascinating and complex characters--The Doctor's Wife is steeped in psychological suspense, compelling and compulsively readable.
Review
andldquo;A fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest, and cheating spouses.andrdquo;andmdash;
Library Journal andnbsp;
andldquo;No character inhabiting this story will escape unscathed from the choices theyandrsquo;ve made... and#91;aand#93; well-crafted work.andrdquo; andmdash;Ms. Magazine
Review
andldquo;A fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest, and cheating spouses.andrdquo;andmdash;
Library Journal andnbsp;
andldquo;No character inhabiting this story will escape unscathed from the choices theyandrsquo;ve made... and#91;aand#93; well-crafted work.andrdquo; andmdash;Ms. Magazine
Synopsis
By the acclaimed novelist ofAll Things Cease to Appear
The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.
Lydia Haas is devoted to Jesus, her church, and her husband. Only recently, after it s too late, has she understood how much she has sacrificed to all of them.
Michael Knowles is a rising young doctor, an OB/gyn at a prominent hospital. A man committed to his principles, to rescues with uncertain outcomes; to his wife. The life they ve made. He never intended to have to make a choice.
Annie Knowles is the doctor s wife. The first time she walked into their 1812 Federal-style home in High Meadow, an idyllic town in upstate New York, she thought she d be happy there forever. But that dream wore thin, and another man a colleague at the local college where Annie teaches is insinuating himself slowly, surely, passionately into her life.
Simon Haas paintings of his wife Lydia made him famous. The story behind those paintings, and behind his marriage, is not one Simon chooses to tell. Until he meets Annie Knowles.
Elizabeth Brundage s stunning debut work of fiction is the story of these four and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives."
Synopsis
A stunning work of literary suspense by the the acclaimed author of All Things Cease to Appear.
"The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun." Lydia Haas is devoted to Jesus, her church, and her husband. Only recently, after it's too late, has she understood how much she has sacrificed to all of them.
Michael Knowles is a rising young doctor, an OB/gyn at a prominent hospital. A man committed to his principles, to rescues with uncertain outcomes; to his wife. The life they've made. He never intended to have to make a choice.
Annie Knowles is the "doctor's wife." The first time she walked into their 1812 Federal-style home in High Meadow, an idyllic town in upstate New York, she thought she'd be happy there forever. But that dream wore thin, and another man--a colleague at the local college where Annie teaches--is insinuating himself slowly, surely, passionately into her life.
Simon Haas' paintings of his wife Lydia made him famous. The story behind those paintings, and behind his marriage, is not one Simon chooses to tell. Until he meets Annie Knowles.
Elizabeth Brundage's debut work of fiction is the story of two couples and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives.
Synopsis
andldquo;The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.andrdquo;
and#160;
So begins The Doctorandrsquo;s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives.and#160; Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local womenandrsquo;s health clinic.and#160; But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husbandandrsquo;s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haasandmdash;an affair that quickly goes awry when Simonandrsquo;s wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.and#160;and#160;
Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class:and#160; Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.and#160;and#160;and#160;
Synopsis
andldquo;The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.andrdquo;
and#160;
So begins The Doctorandrsquo;s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives.and#160; Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local womenandrsquo;s health clinic.and#160; But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husbandandrsquo;s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haasandmdash;an affair that quickly goes awry when Simonandrsquo;s wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.and#160;and#160;
Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class:and#160; Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.and#160;and#160;and#160;
Synopsis
andldquo;The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.andrdquo;
and#160;
So begins The Doctorandrsquo;s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives.and#160; Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local womenandrsquo;s health clinic.and#160; But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husbandandrsquo;s absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haasandmdash;an affair that quickly goes awry when Simonandrsquo;s wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.and#160;and#160;
Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class:and#160; Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.and#160;and#160;and#160;
About the Author
Elizabeth Brundage is a graduate of the Iowa Writersandrsquo; Workshop, where she earned an MFA in fiction and a James Michener award. Her short fiction has been published in the Greensboro Review, Witness Magazine, and New Letters, and she contributed to the anthology Thicker Than Blood: Iandrsquo;ve Always Meant to Tell You, Letters to Our Mothers.