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The Good Wife
Dec 28, 2025 9:33 PM

Author:Elizabeth Buchan

The Good Wife

Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy.

Now married to Will, a successful politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements and loyalty to the party, a position that requires her to look good and remain silent.

But she's no fool. She's well aware that the world outside her home is one that seethes with despair, danger and division. And she's beginning to understand how fragile happiness can be.

Is she coping with the transition from eager bride to politician's wife?

Has she been the Good Wife?

Does being good always mean being truthful?

Praise for Elizabeth Buchan:

'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated' Independent

'Beautifully observed, with the insight and humour that one has come to expect from the author' Times

'Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour' Mail on Sunday

'Buchan is a cut above the rest' Sunday Mirror

Reviews

Elegant and highly stylised...the prose has a lulling, rolling cadence

—— Guardian

Subtle and profoundly beautiful

—— Scotsman

Hill breaks all the rules of British irony and gets away with it, thanks in part to her obsessive imagination

—— Independent

Subtle and profoundly moving, this novel is rich in the qualities for which Hill has won such high praise in the past

—— Sunday Times

As light as a feather but as powerful as flight

—— Observer
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