Novel About My Wife

<p><b>Rejacketed edition of the darkly gripping novel by the Ockham Prize-winning author of <i>Lioness</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br><br><i>Novel About My Wife </i>is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.<br><br><b>Emily Perkins</b> is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, <i>Not Her Real Name</i>, and four novels, including <i>Novel About My Wife</i> (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, <i>The Forrests</i> (longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and <i>Lioness</i> (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction).</p>