The Mad Wife

With odes of The Bell Jar comes a searing historical suspense following a 1950s housewife who,when a mysterious new wife moves across the waybegins to unearth dark secrets about her neighborhood and her own mind. In the 1950snothing is valued more than conformityand Lulu Mayfield has spent the last five years molding herself into the ideal housewife. But after the birth of her daughterLulu’s carefully constructed life begins to teeter. Exhausted by expectations and haunted by tragic memoriesLulu looks to her new neighborBitsy. Bitsyalways the model of a perfect housewifeis not quite what she seems and Lulu knows something dark lurks beneath Bitsy’s constant smile. Increasingly fixated on Bitsy and her perfectly crafted lifeLulu’s mental state begins to fractureand memories she had suppressed long ago begin to rise to the surface. SoonLulu is forced to confront the possibility that she might be headed down a path much darker than she could ever foresee. Set against the backdrop of a post-war era defined by tradition and constrained femininityThe Mad Wife weaves together a coming-of-age search for identity with a psychological drama so poignantyou won’t be able to put it down.