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The Wife's Tale book. On the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, her husband does This is a novel of transformation.

The Wife's Tale book. On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for. It begins slowly and somewhat ponderously, but this suits, because Mary Gooch, the main character, is somewhat ponderous herself, weighing in at the morbidly obese end of the scale. Morbidly obese is defined as 100% or more over ideal body weight.

I was so disappointed in The Wife's Tale. I loved Lansens' The Girls, so was really expecting more from this book than what was delivered.

Only 6 left in stock (more on the way). Only 14 left in stock (more on the way). I was so disappointed in The Wife's Tale. The story was boring and trite. I found the author's descriptions of the protagonist repulsive at times.

Though it opens in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario, trailer park, Lansens's poignant debut is just such a novel.

It's the eve of her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband, Jimmy, to come home. But Mary isn't just waiting for Jimmy. Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Though it opens in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario, trailer park, Lansens's poignant debut is just such a novel.

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Mary Gooch, the heroine of Lansens’ latest novel, The Wife’s Tale, is a typical Lansens. Alyson Richman on her new book “The Lost Wife. I loved half of this novel.

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The Wife's Tale: A Novel. Written by Lori Lansens. Narrated by Justine Eyre. With the generosity and delicate grace that had readers falling in love with her bestselling novel, The Girls, Lori Lansens brings us another moving and beautifully wrought story, this time of a woman taking small yet courageous steps toward her authentic self. Read on the Scribd mobile app.

A few tenacious trees clung to the fall show but most were bare and black from melted snow. She saw a sign for the next service center, reminding herself that she needed to pee and eat something. She saw a sign for the next service center, reminding herself that she needed to pee and eat something n with a break on the road, she hoped to get to the restaurant in Toronto by dinnertime, when more of the staff would be there, to ask questions about Gooch. Gooch was nothing if not memorable. Maybe he’d talked to someone about a trip he wanted to make. A place he wished he lived. Offered some hint of where he might have gone.

Lori Lansens is the author of two bestselling novels, Rush Home Road and The Girls, which was a Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2006 (and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK) and a finalist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in California. I thought The Girls by Lori Lansens was good, but I just adored this book. Mary Gooch is a character whose struggle to find herself I won't soon forget

The Wife's Tale : A Novel. Mary Gooch is a character whose struggle to find herself I won't soon forget. Mary Gooch is morbidly obese, and on the eve of her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, her husband disappears.