The wife between us6/5/2023 But the wedding date-of course he hasn’t even told her the location, just “buy a new bikini”-draws ever closer. Here, we meet Nellie, an adorable New York preschool teacher who is not quite sure she wants to give up the fun, shoestring, highly social lifestyle she shares with her roomie to move to a sterile suburb with Richard. Perhaps the female characters are not, either. In all of these, an unbelievably handsome, wildly successful, secretive, rigid, orderly, and controlling husband-here it’s Richard, a 36-year-old hedge fund manager with “a runner’s wiry build and an easy smile that belied his intense navy-blue eyes”-marries the same type of woman more than once, sometimes more than twice. Pekkanen ( The Perfect Neighbors, 2016, etc.) and Hendricks’ debut collaboration falls into the first wife/second wife subgenre of this type of story (e.g., The Girl Before, The Last Mrs. While we are not the fools we once were and now assume immediately that we are being played, the question is whether we still take pleasure in the twists and revelations that follow. The use of a multiviewpoint, chronologically complex narrative to create suspense by purposely misleading the reader is a really, really popular device. An angry ex-wife is stalking a young, innocent fiancee who is a carbon copy of her former self…or so it seems.
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