# Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins (Paperback)

**Rejacketed edition of the darkly gripping novel by the Ockham Prize-winning author of _Lioness_**  
  
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives.  
  
  
_Novel About My Wife_ is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.  
  
**Emily Perkins** is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, _Not Her Real Name_, and four novels, including _Novel About My Wife_ (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, _The Forrests_ (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and _Lioness_ (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction).

## Details

- **Price:** 8.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- **Tags:** All, thrillers

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