The Good Wife Strikes Back - Elizabeth Buchan
As I was browsing the book shelves at the library looking for an Elizabeth Berg novel, I came across this book by Elizabeth Buchan. From reading the jacket, it sounded like a good book. Book cover: Fanny Savage had a 19 year record - earned with patience, devotion and contentment - as the perfect wife to an ambitious, idealistic politician. Life is a whirlwind of public engagements and unquestioning loyalty to the party, to appearances and to her husband. Her job description is to look good and remain silent whatever the cost. But much as she and her husband love each other and their teenage daughter, Fanny senses within herself a creeping restlessness. Increasingly she feels the fragility of happiness and the part of her she had buries - the brilliant partner in her father's Italian wine business - begins to resurface. She has given two decades of her own life to being the Good Wife. Was it worth it, after all? Could it be time fo...