Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

It feels remarkable to be a deserted wife when one is only twenty-four.

New York, 1924.

Patricia and Peter are a thoroughly modern married couple.

Both drink. Both smoke. Both work. Both believe in 'Love-Outside-Marriage'.

Until they don't.

Or, really, until he doesn't.

So when Peter pushes for divorce with increasing violence, Patricia has to forge a new life as a single woman: as an ex-wife.

A sensational bestseller in 1929, yet utterly timeless, Ex-Wife plunges us into the 'era of the one-night stand'.

It evokes not only the Manhattan bars, fashion advertising offices, female friendships and all-night parties of a dazzling city, but the hollow affairs, emotional hangovers, backstreet abortions, and struggles for sexual freedoms amidst the moral double standards of a patriarchal world.

Paperback

Language: English
Extent: 304
Publish Date: 1 Aug 2024
ISBN: 9780571388059
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber