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It gave the impression the author is either super young (tho i don't think so),lazy,or just really wanted to cut corners. Now I’ve discovered that Norah plans to have a baby of her own and that causes me no end of problems. She could destroy everything and reveal my deepest, darkest secrets. But “Ex-Wife,” which is now being reissued (by McNally Editions) for the first time in more than thirty years, wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of cosmopolitan white women’s liberation that readers were primed to expect. As Marsha Gordon argues in her engaging new biography, “ Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott” (University of California Press), the novel “offers a strong case for the protections of marriage and the dangers of being an unattached woman.” In Parrott’s view, women’s drive for equality in the post-Victorian age had “made their lives harder,” Gordon writes, “and her stories dramatized the consequences of this unwanted bequest.” Or, as Parrott once told an interviewer, “I am not a feminist. In fact, I resent the feminists—they are the ones who started all this.” The story is set in two different timescales, it’s a double narrative so we get two sides of the story, one from Natasha and one from Jen.
I will be reading more from Jess Ryder, and I hope other readers find her book as captivating as I did! Alice finds out that Norah plans to have a baby of her own and that poses many problems. All the deep, dark secrets that Alice has kept hidden for years risk being exposed. Alice must do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn’t happen. Unlike its author, “Ex-Wife” peaks late, with an interpolation of melodrama and a glimpse of something like a gynotopia. Noel’s disfigured wife, heretofore hinted at as a madwoman in the attic, suddenly shows up at Patricia’s door, veiled and all business, like Evelyn Mulwray materializing in Jake Gittes’s office in “Chinatown.” She has startling news and a serious request. Patricia’s impulsive response triggers a series of events that are small in their practical effects but thrilling in their emotional complexity and, tellingly, made possible by the talents and generosity of the only “liberated” woman in all of “Ex-Wife”: the maybe-lesbian-coded Helena. A friend of Patricia and Lucia’s, Helena is a painter and mask-maker who, Patricia says, “sneered at those of us who got involved with men” and who “had absolutely perfect taste in clothes.” Patricia encourages Noel’s wife to emerge from her isolation and travel the world with her husband, and so, at Patricia’s request, Helena crafts a set of beautiful cosmetic masks for her, at no cost for her immense labors. In a mischievous flourish of dual solidarity, Helena models the mouths and chins—the “grave smile”—of the masks as if they were cast from Patricia’s own face.The Ex Wife is a rollercoaster of a psychological thriller. It was exciting, thrilling and kept me guessing. Natasha is struggling to make it as a barista in the city. Living on a tight budget, she cycles to work daily until one fateful day dramatically changes her life for the better - or so she thought. The novel has interesting twists and I like the ending. So, taking into account the story's virtues and faults, I'd say it's an average psychological thriller. I received an advance review copy for free thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and I am leaving this review voluntarily. A huge thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and Jess Ryder for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.
The Ex-Wife doubles Budapest for London in Paramount+ drama". www.theknowledgeonline.com. The Knowledge . Retrieved 14 November 2022. Just like with the storyline the characters come to life with Sally and Amanda's fantastic writing skills. They are well rounded, realistic and strong making them all the more believable. Alice's life falls apart as she is arrested for the murder of her ex husband Mark's new fiancee along and her ex husband and daughter shun her. Being a parent myself my heart absolutely broke for Alice as she not only had to deal with the heartbreak of losing her husband but also deal with the attitude and problems that come with raising a teenager that has her own problems along with a family seperation added. I really liked AAlice but I could have shouted at her on a few occasions for some of the things that she did. However, it feels like she cant do right for doing wrong when it comes to her daughter Cassie and while she dislikes her new boyfriend Scott, neither do Mark, Norah or Felix, Cassie does what the majority of teenagers do and the more her parents didn't want her to do something the more she pushed against them. Regardless of how annoyed at Cassie |I was at times my heart also went out to her as she was going through problems with Scott along with the breakdown of her family. Where most teenagers would go completely off the rails I do believe that Cassie's behaviour was pretty mild compared to most others would have been. I actually liked Norah too and although she did get engaged to Mark not long after he separated from his wife, she was not the one who had been in a relationship so she didn't really do anything wrong and she was actually a likeable character. I wasn't a huge fan of Mark but I will say that he didn't slate Alice in regards to her parenting skills and they did try to do their best and work together with Alice for Cassie. The only one I actually didn't like was Scott who I didn't trust from the start and didn't like the way he was with Cassie. I won't go into more details as I don't want to risk giving anything away but Amanda and Sally really have done an amazing job constructing an addictive and explosive psychological thriller with fantastic and varied characters that you just won't be able to put down!!
Anna - the mysterious third POV. Forever looking over her shoulder, petrified her past is catching up to her.
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