War of the Wives - by Tamar Cohen (Paperback)

About the Book

Imagine being happily married for 28 years. You have three children, a lovely house and a husband who travels a lot - but even after all this time, you still love each other. Or: imagine being happily married for 17 years. You have one daughter, a lovely home and though your husband travels a lot, you still love each other passionately. Then one day you get a call that turns your world upside down: your husband is dead. You are devastated. You go to the funeral... And come face to face with his other widow. Another wife, another family. It can't be true. It must be a mistake. It has to be her fault - all of it. Or: is it?With the sharp and witty scalpel she used in The Mistress's Revenge, Tamar Cohen lays bare the raw emotions thart underpin so-called normal family life and explores the hearts of two women forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew.

Book Synopsis

Think marriage means happily-ever-after? Think again...

Selina and Lottie are complete opposites. Where Selina is poised but prudish, Lottie is quirky and emotional. Selina is the dutiful mother of three children and able manager of their stylish suburban home. Lottie lives with her eccentric teenage daughter in a small city apartment fit to bursting with color and happy chaos. But these women also have one shocking similarity: they're married to the same man...and they've just found out he's dead.

Selina has been married to Simon Busfield for twenty-eight years, Lottie for seventeen. Neither knows a thing about the other until the day of Simon's funeral, where the scandalous truth is revealed in front of everyone they know. Another wife, another family... And they've onlyjust scratched the surface of Simon's incredible betrayal.

With dark humor and razor-sharp wit, Cohen expertly unravels a story of deception and betrayal, where two very different families will discover they are entwined in ways that will change them all forever.

"Witty, ludicrously melodramatic and psychologically perceptive."

--Sunday Telegraph

"A cracking debut.... Fatal Attraction with a clever twist at the end. Addictive."

--The Bookseller on The Mistress's Revenge

Review Quotes

"Dark, clever and utterly addictive." - Lisa Jewell, author of Before I Met You

"Witty, ludicrously melodramatic and psychologically perceptive." -Sunday Telegraph

"A smart, gripping story that we just couldn't stop reading - you won't believe the ending." -Closer Magazine on War of the Wives

"A cracking debut.... Fatal Attraction with a clever twist at the end. Addictive."
-The Bookseller on The Mistress's Revenge