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The Good Wife Strikes Back
Author: Elizabeth Buchan
Book Information
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Rating: 20

ISBN-13: 9780670032808 - ISBN-10: 0670032808
Publication Date: 12/29/2003
Pages: 320

Book Description:
When Viking published Elizabeth Buchan’s New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, American women saw themselves mirrored in its pages with unique empathy, sophistication, and storytelling flair. It was more than a finely written and irresistible read. It opened up the unsuspected vista of a newer, better than ever phase of life waiting for them. The same readers—and many more, because the word about Buchan has gotten out—will devour The Good Wife Strikes Back.

Forty-eight-year-old Fanny Savage has a nineteen-year record—earned with patience, devotion, and contentment—as the perfect wife to an ambitious, idealistic politician. Life is a whirlwind of public engagements and unquestioning loyalty to the party, to keeping up appearances, and to her husband. Her job description is to look good and remain silent whatever the cost. But as much as she loves her husband and their teenage daughter, Fanny senses within herself a creeping restlessness. Increasingly she feels the fragility of happiness and the part of her she had buried—as the brilliant partner in her father’s Italian winery—begins to resurface. She has given two decades of her life to being the Good Wife—was it worth it, after all? Could it be time for a trip back to Italy? Could it be time for . . . a change?


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Kathleen J. (cozyreader) wrote on 8/13/2008...


This book was great! It was frustrating because it was a bit like life. The wife had to fight so hard for someone to care about her, and she isn't vengeful; just wants to have some life. It was more than I expected; it wasn't pat; it was messy the way life is. I really liked it

Amy W. (AmyW) from KANSAS CITY, MO wrote on 4/24/2007...


Made me glad I am not a politician's wife.

Tania T. (taniat) from MIDDLESEX, NJ wrote on 3/29/2007...


What a great story!! It will touch the heart of many married women and even the single ladies who think marriage is the ultimate goal. Great story!!

Marykaye M. (pawprints) from BLANCO, TX wrote on 11/28/2006...


Not as flighty and frivolous a book as the title might suggest. It's all about relationships and the compromises necessary to maintain them. How do we maintain our individuality? Fanny (the wife) has given two decades of her own life to being the "good wife." Was it worth it? Could it be time for a change? By the author of "Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman."

Valli A. (ALbookbugg) wrote on 7/22/2006...


I love this series of books. Too funny!

Stephanie L. (StephL) from CORONA, CA wrote on 3/3/2006...


Really good story...better than the title would suggest.

Janice F. (tani) from CHULA VISTA, CA wrote on 2/8/2006...


Another book by the author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman. This time, the wife has been in a marriage for 19 years, raised a child, and been the perfect wife to an ambitious, idealistic politician, and shared their home for almost the whole time with her husband's alcoholic sister, but she is feeling increasingly restless and begins to wonder if it is all worth it.