Ex-Wife (Faber Editions)

Ursula Parrott

Ex-Wife (Faber Editions)
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 October 2024
Pages
304
ISBN
9780571388059

Ex-Wife (Faber Editions)

Ursula Parrott

Lord, I have been more chased than chaste . . 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.

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