The Speakers Wife

Author : Quentin Letts
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472121996
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speaker's Wife written by Quentin Letts and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev Tom Ross's quiet and semi-alcoholic life as chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons is about to be shattered. Pastor Petroc Stone of a central London, evangelical church gives sanctuary to a young man being chased by the police for making an anti-Islamic protest. Politicians rage about the Church of England giving a safe haven to a dangerous criminal and Islamists surround the church building, furious at the boy's insult. Meanwhile, the charismatic, white-maned Don of Doubt, Augustus Dymock, and his secular campaign, the Thought Foundation, are pressuring the Church to sell hundreds of its under-used places of worship. As the stories twist and flow together, Ross finds himself caught up in a world of bribes, violence and political spin and, at high personal cost, he must confront his demons. The Speaker's Wife mixes Westminster intrigue with searching depictions of an England which has neglected its beliefs. Laugh-aloud satire is mixed with moving passages about the human condition and even a fairytale love story.

Author : Meg Wolitzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743456661
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wife written by Meg Wolitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg Wolitzer'sprevious books includeSleepwalking, This Is Your Life,andSurrender, Dorothy.She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316025674
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilot's Wife written by Anita Shreve and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?

Author : James Alexander Manning
Publisher : London : E. Churton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons written by James Alexander Manning and published by London : E. Churton. This book was released on 1850 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Smith Roskell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commons and Their Speakers in English Parliaments, 1376-1523 written by John Smith Roskell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Alexander Manning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, from the Time of King Edward III to Queen Victoria written by James Alexander Manning and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Gailey
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250174651
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Echo Wife written by Sarah Gailey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married. It took me so long to hate him. Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband. Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up. Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Erskine William Langmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The divine law in relation to marriage with a deceased wife's sister, a sermon written by Erskine William Langmore and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553901214
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emancipator's Wife written by Barbara Hambly and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears and anxieties. Although she is courted by the most eligible suitors in the land, including future senator Stephen Douglas, it is a gangly lawyer from Illinois who captures her heart. After a stormy courtship and a broken engagement, Abraham Lincoln will marry twenty-four-year-old Mary Todd and give her a ring inscribed with the words “Love Is Eternal.” But their happiness won’t last nearly so long. Their first child will be born under the gathering clouds of a civil war, and three more follow. As Lincoln’s star rises, the pleasure-loving Mary learns, often the hard way, the rules of being a politician’s wife. But by the time the fiery storm of war passes, tragedy will have claimed two sons, scandal will shadow her days as First Lady, and an assassin’s bullet will take Lincoln himself, leaving Mary alone and all but forgotten by the nation that owed her husband its survival. Yet it is in the years to come that Mary Todd Lincoln will truly come into her own. In public, she will fight to preserve Lincoln’s memory even as she battles a bitterly contested insanity trial. In private, she will struggle with depression and addiction as she endures the betrayals–both real and imagined–of family and friends. With a gifted novelist’s imagination and a historian’s eye for detail, Barbara Hambly tells a story of astonishing scope, richly peopled with real-life characters and their fictional counterparts, a tour-de-force tale of power, politics, and the role of women in nineteenth- century America. The result is a Mary Todd Lincoln few have seen and none will forget–the fascinating, controversial woman of whom her husband could say: “My wife is as handsome as when she was a girl and I fell in love with her; and what is more, I have never fallen out”–Mary Todd, the woman who loved Abraham Lincoln.

Author : Lori Lansens
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316122025
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wife's Tale written by Lori Lansens and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy -- still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school -- to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search. For the first time in her life, she boards a plane and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary finds that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she finds fills her with inner strength she's never felt before. Through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself.