The Wife's Tale
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This is Lori Lansens' third novel. The first two being: "Rusholme Road" and the ever popular and bestseller; "The Girls". This third offering is as good as "The Girls" and kept me reading long after the lights were out and everyone else gone to bed. The endearing Mary Gooch is a woman we can all relate too on one level or another and can find kinship in her honesty within and about herself. The slow dawning that she can change her life, how she lives it, and how she sees herself she realizes, has to come from within herself, but her journey of change is aided by some crazy and kind people. Excellent novel!!
***NOTE: ON PAGE 213 OF THE BOOK...LORI LANSENS MENTIONS "BOOKCROSSING!!" I'm not kidding, pick up the book and have a read for yourself!
From dust jacket:
"Mary Gooch lives her life in a defensive, deflective blame, isolating herself in the small farming town of Leaford, Ontario, the locale of Lori Lansen's first two bestselling novels, with her most constant companion-hunger. Married for twenty-five years to big, handsome "Gooch", from whom she has slowly drifted away, Mary is stuck in a menial job and trapped inside a body she no longer recognizes.
On the eve of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Gooch disappears. Panicky and frightened, Mary, who has never so much as used a bank card, chooses to abandon her sheltered life in pursuit of him across America. As she does so, she encounters a dazzling array of people whose lives she could not have imagined, and discovers human kindness in unexpected places. As she walks, runs, swims, drives and flies away from claustrophobic Leaford, her missing husband a spectre that dogs each step, Mary hopes for a miracle, and yet discovers, with the help of new friends, that her power to change is whithin.
THE WIFE'S TALE is a vivid exploration of one woman's small, courageous steps toward independence. With winsome humour and poignant grace, Lori Lansens has given us another remarkable story with characters to fall in love with."
***NOTE: ON PAGE 213 OF THE BOOK...LORI LANSENS MENTIONS "BOOKCROSSING!!" I'm not kidding, pick up the book and have a read for yourself!
From dust jacket:
"Mary Gooch lives her life in a defensive, deflective blame, isolating herself in the small farming town of Leaford, Ontario, the locale of Lori Lansen's first two bestselling novels, with her most constant companion-hunger. Married for twenty-five years to big, handsome "Gooch", from whom she has slowly drifted away, Mary is stuck in a menial job and trapped inside a body she no longer recognizes.
On the eve of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary Gooch disappears. Panicky and frightened, Mary, who has never so much as used a bank card, chooses to abandon her sheltered life in pursuit of him across America. As she does so, she encounters a dazzling array of people whose lives she could not have imagined, and discovers human kindness in unexpected places. As she walks, runs, swims, drives and flies away from claustrophobic Leaford, her missing husband a spectre that dogs each step, Mary hopes for a miracle, and yet discovers, with the help of new friends, that her power to change is whithin.
THE WIFE'S TALE is a vivid exploration of one woman's small, courageous steps toward independence. With winsome humour and poignant grace, Lori Lansens has given us another remarkable story with characters to fall in love with."
