Young Wives - Softcover

Acclaim for Olivia Goldsmith:

‘One of our most acute observers of modern marriage and betrayal’
Good Housekeeping

‘Full of wisecracks, and gossip... Olivia Goldsmith can keep you reading’
Cosmopolitan

‘Goldsmith’s characters are wilful, robust, amusing and delightfully credible’
Mail on Sunday

The battle of the sexes hasn’t ended – it’s just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives Club, about women let down by their men and the law.

Michelle
Rescued from an abusive upbringing by her ‘perfect’ husband Frank, her life in her beautiful house in middle-class Westchester is the happy ending she always dreamed of. She has never worried about how Frank pays for it all until, suddenly, traumatically, she is brought face to face with the ugly truth.

Jada
Jada is a worker. But Clinton, her husband, has been unemployed for years forcing her to be the bread winner, look after the children and run the house. One of the few black professional women in her neighbourhood, Jada is isolated in many ways but she finally gives Clinton an ultimatum. The consequences are disastrous.

Angie
When Jada and Michelle begin their quest for justice, Angie is the lawyer determined to help them. But she has similar problems of her own. Married just a year ago, she’s been shell-shocked to find out the truth about her wealthy, Ivy League husband’s extracurricular activities.

Moving, angry and bitterly funny, this is the story of how friendships formed in adversity helps Michelle, Jada and Angie fight back.