joreasonable 's review for:

How To Be a Good Wife by Emma Chapman

3.0

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Written in a similar way to The Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty, in the first person with little dialogue and plenty of description on what is going on in and around the life of Marta´s life. After many years of marriage she starts to “see” things, or does she, that is what the author is trying to get through to the reader, is it true of not. The marriage is not a happy one, but based on raising a son and looking after her husband but once her son leaves home there is little else for Marta to do as her only role in life is to be a good wife. The visions get more real, in a sense, but you still don´t know if they are visions and memories of her past or not, I was disappointed in the ending, a sad ending, surprising and a little sudden.

The book is short at only 288 pages I ploughed through is quickly.

This is the authors debut novel.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6885400.Emma_Chapman