Thorndike Core: How to Be a Good Wife (Hardcover)

from claireh18

Published by Picador on 10th April 2014. I'd like to thank the publisher, author and the Lovereading team for the advance reading copy I received. An intense and chilling debut from author Emma Chapman, a fascinating and multi-medialayered tale of suspense with darkly menacing undertones. I found...

from shelleyraec

How To Be A Good Wife is a disquieting novel by debut novelist Emma Chapman. This subtle psychological thriller is an intriguing tale of half truths and lies, madness and mystery. Make your home a place of peace and order. Marta Bjornstad has always striven to be a good wife and mother, following...

from lostinalibrary

Marta is a housewife in an unspecified Scandinavian country. She was on medication for a medical disorder but, after her grown son leaves home, she goes off her meds. First,she discovers that she is a smoker, something Hector, her controlling husband would not approve of. Then she starts hallucin...

from SqueakyChu

I have to give this book very high marks for its compulsive readability. I stayed up well into the wee hours one night only to wake up the next morning to stay in bed to finish this story. This novel tells of Marta, a woman who is "not quite right" in her marriage to the much older Hector Bjornst...

from kitchenwitch04

Have you ever watched a movie and through most of it you are sitting there wondering what the hell is going on? Well, if you have, then you know the way I felt as I read How To Be A Good Wife by Emma Chapman. I spent most of the book trying to figure it out. And this doesn't in any way mean that ...