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From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?
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"Lauren Willig has made a name for herself writing the finest historical intrigue and The English Wife does not disappoint - it is her best yet! Written with keen detail and subtle nuance, The English Wife is a dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final breathtaking twist." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale
LAUREN WILLIG is the author of several New York Times bestselling works of historical fiction, including The Forgotten Room (co-authored with Karen White and Beatriz Williams), The Ashford Affair , and the Pink Carnation series. She is a RITA Award-winner for Best Regency Historical for The Mischief of the Mistletoe . A graduate of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.
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This was a fun & entertaining read. I couldn’t put the book down. The threads of the secondary characters aren’t always well resolved, sometimes just disappearing from the story. But overall a fun page turner. Homosexuality is probably no longer a shocking story turn for readers as it’s been used with some frequency. However, some of the men are so bad that maybe the spinsters/single women should just get some nice cats and books and settle down together! Love the language n the story overall. Yea
The English Wife was a jumble of stories, some of which had resolutions. It wasn't linear or predictable, although some pieces were quite foreseeable.... If you know too much about it, you won't read it, and if you like Lauren Willig you certainly should! This novel is a solid 4.5. It might even be a 5, but I can know that only after some time has passed. Enjoy!
While the character development could have been more vivid and revealing, it was just about the only thing in this book that was not evocative and absorbing. I loved the detail about the period, everything from the train ride with the chipped teacups to the gilded furniture at the re-invented Abbey on the Hudson. The author really knew her stuff about the Gilded Age and all its corset-like strictures. I wanted to love the two main characters (Bay & Georgiana) more than I did, but I did grow to almost love Janie. She was a little desiccated in a strange way, but her point of view was the core around which the book was written.
Janie Van Duyvil is at a costume ball celebrating the opening of her brother's new home on the Hudson River when she finds her brother Bay with a jeweled dagger through his heart and his wife Annabelle missing with her shoe on the bank of the river. She wants to find the truth of what happened to Bay and Annabelle, the mysterious English woman he brought back from his Grand Tour of Europe. The story is told back and forth from Janie's point-of-view, then Annabelle, or Georgie as she is also known. Janie enlists the help of a newspaperman, James Burke, to find how what happened despite being a scion of New York Gilded Age society. Her mother is a grande dame of society who keeps Janie on a tight leash. There is Anne, Janie's cousin and Bay's confidant, defiant but also under the control of the older Mrs. Van Duyvil. Viola and Sebastian are Bay and Annabelle's twins, named for twins in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the heirs to the Van Duyvil fortune. Georgie's story is about how she met Bay at a theater in London and their subsequent life together. They both have secrets which gradually come out as the story progresses. The mystery of the murder(s) is the core of the story here, and it's very well told. First, the murderer seems to be one person, then another, with all sorts of different motives abounding as Janie and Burke try to solve Bay's killing. There are many Shakespearean references, especially to Twelfth Night which I enjoyed. I've read all Ms. Willig's Pink Carnation series and most of her historical fiction books. I think she just gets better and better. She captures the Gilded Age and New York society well here. The descriptions are excellent, and the pacing of the story makes you want to keep reading. I very much enjoyed The English Wife.
Begins in London, where Bay a wealthy New Yorker meets Georgie a poor burlesque type actress. He believes Georgie is her half-sister Annabelle, who Georgie mentioned when discussing her past. After a whirlwind romance they marry and they return to New York and Bay’s fairy - an overbearing mother, a frivolous cousin, and a cowering sister. Georgie is introduced as Annabelle, and that is the role she plays in New York and her marriage. But she is not the only one with secrets - Bay has secrets of his own. The book goes back and forth between Bay and “Annabelle’s” life and then in the times after their deaths as the plot of the book is the murder of Bay and disappearance, supposedly with her lover, of Annabelle.
I mean, the characters and story were really good too, but part of what I loved about this book was watching the past meet up with the present. The way that things are revealed unfolds beautifully, letting the reader know some things before certain characters do, almost making the reader part of the story. And for very emotional scenes, it helped to already know the truth so you could focus on how the characters were responding in the moment, rather than trying to figure out what was true. I loved the many many Shakespeare references - some obvious, some subtle - because my family also speaks Shakespeare. Although the book takes place in the very late 1800’s in New York (mostly), this is a gothic story. When things got a little overblown, I would realize how very gothic those elements were and appreciate them rather than being annoyed by them. I highly recommend The English Wife!
Liked the fact I could not figure out the ending. The twist was very unexpected and I really liked it. It was interesting to read about the fortune 400 and the social norms of that era. Would be interesting to see if she writes a sequel.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable if a little melodramatic!
Perhaps a little melodramatic for me but still quite enjoyable. Didn’t like the “Pink Carnation” book I once tried by the author, but this one was on Kindle for 99p, so well worth it at that price. Might read another of her books - just not Pink Carnation ones!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good quality romantic thriller.
This is my first Laura Willig book. I enjoyed the plot and charaterisation although at least one of the reveals is easily spotted. It's a diverting read and evokes a good sense of time and place. The two lead charcters might lend themselves well to further novels. Unfortunatey Ms Willig's other titles sound more romantic than thrilling so I am not sure if I will read any more. Fans of Anne Perry might find the combination of lower and upper class investigatory team familiar although the setting is different.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth reading
This is a historical romance/crime story. It is a contrived and contradictory story written in a melodramatic fashion . Utter tosh as the upper class mother would probably say.
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The English Wife
Her stories are always fantastic, I am ever impatient for the next one. So many twists and turns, absolutely riveting.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing with many twists and turns...
"I didn't see you there. No one ever did." (quote from the book) Janie Van Duyvil, along with her cousin, Anne Bayard, find her brother, Bay (Bayard), with a knife in his chest during the Twelfth Night ball celebrating the home he had built for his wife, Annabelle. In her quest to determine who had done this and why, sets her on a course to finding not only the truth but her voice and the freedom from the shackles that bind her. In this Gilded Age murder/mystery romance, the story is told from two perspectives...Janie's and Annabelle's. Each are hiding in their own way. It is a story of control, manipulation, secrets and betrayals. I found it intriguing with many twists and turns I didn't see coming. "It was easier to fling mud than to scour a reputation clean." The press is relentless in their sensationalized war of words to sell the most papers, and high society just loves a scandal to gossip about...especially one of their own. I did enjoy the Gothic style romance. I will admit to finding some parts a bit slow and there were some very minor loose threads that were not fully pursued. But the portrayal of Mrs. Van Duyvil, the mother, and her complete control of her family flew off the page. The high society matron's edicts had to be followed or one's life was miserable, especially Janie's. "This was what hatred sounded like, not the little grudges of daily life, but true hatred, the sort that ground continents to dust and acknowledged no cost in the pursuit of vengeance." (quote from the book) Ms. Willig's ability to paint a scene and bring her characters to life is always a delight. I look forward to her next book.
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Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series and several stand alone works of historical fiction, including "The Ashford Affair", "That Summer", "The Other Daughter", and "The Forgotten Room" (co-written with Karen White and Beatriz Williams). Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in English History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.
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