Melanie Gideon
For fans of Helen Fieldingâ€™s ,Bridget Jonesâ€™s Diary, and Allison Pearsonâ€™s ,I Donâ€™t Know How She Does It, comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.,Maybe it was those extra five pounds Iâ€™d gained.Â Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her.Â Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other., Â , But when the anonymous online study called â€œMarriage in the 21st Centuryâ€ showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasnâ€™t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101). , Â , And, just like that, I found myself answering questions., Â , 7. Sometimes I tell him heâ€™s snoring when heâ€™s not snoring so heâ€™ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself., 61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this manâ€™s children., 67. To not want what you donâ€™t have. What you ,canâ€™t, have. What you ,shouldnâ€™t, have., 32. That if we werenâ€™t careful, it was possible to forget one another., Â , Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctorâ€™s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions., Â , But these days, Iâ€™m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, Iâ€™ll have to make a decisionâ€”one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, Iâ€™m too busy answering questions. , Â , As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
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Wife 22