HOUSE WIFE DOWN

出版者:7-09999

作者:Alison Penton Harper

页数:275

出版时间:2006-4

价格:62.00元

isbn号码:9780330444279

Book Description

The days I had previously filled with the duties of chief cook and bottle-washer now lay strangely empty - they stretched out before me like a blank canvas. I kept looking at it, but couldn't think of anything to paint...

Preparing dinner for her husband's colleagues, nervous, and listening to a woman complain about domestic slavery on the radio, Helen Robbins hits the bottle hard. For fifteen years she has lived a life of suburban predictablity with Robert, bending to his boorish demands and allowing her once vital, independent spirit to retreat into the safe cage of mundance, dutiful routine. Over dinner that evening she decides to throw off her role of domestic angel and hit him where it hurts: she dares to criticize his driving.

Riled by his wife's comments, an irate Robert sets out the following Saturday to prove himself and is killed in a freak accident. Helen's life is about to be transformed.

As she rekindles relationships with old friends and close family, Helen discovers again the excitement of her former world. Tentatively stepping back into the fold, imbued with a new sense of power and adventure, she discovers for the first time the possibility of a relationship on her own terms - as well as certain thrills she never quite believed possible. And the surprises are only just beginning...

Book Dimension

length: 17.8(cm) 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:11.1(cm)