'Mrs. Hemingway is so beautifully written, and evocative, that I could not put it down until the last page.' - Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You.
A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover.
Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation, and each will be forced to ask herself how far she will go to remain his wife . . .
Luminous and intoxicating, Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood portrays real lives with rare intimacy and plumbs the depths of the human heart.
'Whisking us from jazz-age Paris to post-war Cuba via 1930s Florida, Naomi Wood's sparkling novel explores the loves and losses of Hemingway's wives . . . vividly rendered, touchingly universal' Sunday Express
In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend. She is also Ernest's lover . . .
Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, as each marriage is ignited by passion and deceit, four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love - and lose - the most famous writer of his generation.
'Luminous, intoxicating . . . full of betrayals and moments of heartbreaking intimacy' Marie Claire
'Richly imagined and emotionally wise . . . sensitive and moving' Daily Telegraph
'So beautifully written, so true and so vivid that it eclipses anything strictly biographical' Daily Mail
This novel, described as a 'work of the imagination' is nevertheless, based on fact. There was not just one Mrs Hemingway, but four, and this book explores what it was like to be the woman in Ernest Hemingway's life. This is our book of the month
