{"product_id":"the-secret-wife","title":"The Secret Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Robert Hillman and Toni Jordan, and written by an award-winning author and screenwriter, The Secret Wife a tense, heartfelt story of female friendship and liberation in the turbulent 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1961, on the day that Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to rocket into outer space, Edith Devine moves into her brand-new suburban home-and meets her new neighbour, Frankie Heyman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eFrankie is a glamorous, sophisticated foil to the quiet, clever Edith, and the two housewives become firm friends. Then, when Frankie's domineering husband Ralph refuses to let her get a job, Edith hatches a plan to keep her friend's household running while Frankie secretly goes out to work-and so Edith becomes Frankie's secret wife. As Frankie builds a business empire, Edith runs both their homes- dusting, cleaning and cooking her way through the sexual revolution, the summer of love and the second wave of feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThroughout the 1960s, the world's great events seem to be mirrored in the lives of two women-until the day in 1969 when the first humans step out onto the surface of the moon, and Frankie and Edith face a calamitous reckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe Secret Wife is an irresistible story of fierce love, unconditional sacrifice and the transcendent power of pulling together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark Lamprell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e288 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eH: 236mm W: 156mm Spine: 26mm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeight: 450 grams\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41675394220182,"sku":"9781922458421","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket--81_9cec0564-e407-402b-be3f-af4996a39c86.jpg?v=1650239894","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/the-secret-wife","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}