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Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway and finds herself captivated by his energy, intensity and literary ambition. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively and volatile expatriates, including F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound.
But Jazz Age Paris - febrile, glamorous, its inhabitants running headlong from the shadow of the Great War - does not lend itself to family life and fidelity. As Hadley, now mother to a beloved baby son, struggles with jealousy and self-doubt, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bear fruit, and they face the ultimate crisis of their marriage - a deception that will lead to the unravelling of everything they made for themselves in Paris, their 'great good place'.
A searing novel of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people. |
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