From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The
English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family
secrets, affairs, and even murder.
Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor
of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson
Petal and the White. Mystery, murder, mistaken identity,
romance--Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning
tapestry.--Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz
Her best yet...A dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and
a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats
until the final breathtaking twist.--Pam Jenoff, New York Times
bestselling author of The Orphan's Tale
A Book of the Month club pick!
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's
the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house
in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have
three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family
home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Yes, there are
rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are
rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a
knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle
goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay's sister,
Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to try to uncover the
truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must
be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his
wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to
unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her
brother die with the name George on his lips?
