Wife 22

Description: If you like Modern Family, you'll love this A successful marriage is like growing a temperamental plant - you have to work hard and tend to it carefully, as Alice Buckle is just discovering. Despite her husband, two children and straight-talking best friend, Alice suddenly feels lost. Is it just that she's turning the age her mother was when she lost her? Or is it that she and her husband seem to have run out of things to say to each other? Help comes in an unexpected form. When Alice starts unburdening herself to a complete stranger online, she starts to see things in a new light. Freed by the anonymity - she is known only as Wife 22 - she suddenly remembers all the reasons she fell in love with her husband in the first place. But in the course of baring all, is Alice risking losing everything she once held so dear?

Review: 'I loved it, loved it, loved it. It's so funny and true and sad and real and clever and of-the-moment. Also so hopeful and wise and ultimately heartwarming.' Marian Keyes 'Witty ... profound. Hugely enjoyable with a controversial ending.' Red 'A wonderfully clever, sad and funny read.' Daily Mail 'Pacey writing ... raw humour' Sunday Times 'Wife 22 depicts the ridiculous ease with which we reveal our innermost thoughts to complete strangers but not those we know and love' Vogue (Australia) 'With a quirky narrative that mixes Facebook statues, questionnaires, Google searches and chatty prose, this is a funny and poignant story that explores how confession can sometimes be the ultimate aphrodisiac' Easy Living '"Did I really try and pass off Ikea meatballs as my own? Did I really admit to our friends that we have sex only once a month?" Just minor questions for Alice Buckle as her life scrambles' Sainsbury's Magazine 'In the crowded pool of novels about midlife crises, Wife 22 has the buoyancy of water wings' Washington Post

Author Biography: Melanie Gideon is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir The Slippery Year, which received huge critical acclaim. She has written for The Times, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, More and Marie Claire.