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The Doctor's Wife
Author: Elizabeth Brundage
Book Information
Publisher: Viking Adult
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
Rating: 10

ISBN-13: 9780670033164 - ISBN-10: 0670033162
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 352

Book Description:
From the outside, the Knowles family appeared to have it all—a loving marriage, two beautiful children, a home in an idyllic part of the countryside in upstate New York. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice, his wife, Annie, teaches at a local college. But Annie’s role as "the doctor’s wife" has worn thin, and Michael has answered the call of an old flame to moonlight at the local women’s health center, the city’s only provider of abortions.

These subtle cracks in their life widen when anonymous threats arrive at their home. The reason for this intimidation is not at all clear—is it, as seems to be the case, the work of religious extremists opposed to what Michael is doing? Or are these violent warnings meant for Annie? For she has made at least one certain enemy in town—Lydia Haas, the painter’s wife, a disturbed young woman with a cellar full of her own dark secrets.

Told in the alternating viewpoints of Michael, Annie, Simon, and Lydia—four fascinating and complex characters—The Doctor’s Wife is steeped in psychological suspense, compelling and compulsively readable.


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Diane H. (jessicacd) from SNOHOMISH, WA wrote on 10/31/2008...


This was a good book, with 4 characters...Michael, OB/GYN....his wife Anne (Professor & mother to their 2 children) who because her husband is consummed by his work is home very little has an love affair with Simon (fading alcholic artist who is now a college art professor), his mad wife Lydia whom he met as a young child and felt because of her being left alone and having serious mental problems, he had to take care of her no matter what... An extremist church against abortion which sets the scene for a very compelling thriller.

Lacey C. from NELSON, GA wrote on 8/25/2008...


This is a very interesting story and I love how every character ties into the story somehow. It is a great read.

Kathryn V. (Kmarie) wrote on 10/30/2005...


Very popular book and well sought after from book club members.