The Lost Wife
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The Lost Wife
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Sophie Amoss
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Narrated by:
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Sophie Amoss
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Susanna Moore
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'A breathtaking tale of love and war'
Telegraph
'Moore's voice is cool and sure, rich with detail'
Vogue
'A riveting account of one woman's journey'
Guardian
Summer, 1855. Sarah Brinton sets out from Rhode Island, leaving an abusive husband and child behind to head west across the country, until her journey ends in Minnesota Territory, on lands claimed both by white settlers and Native Americans. There she finds herself another husband, a Yale-educated doctor who works on the nearby Sioux reservation, and settles into a new life.
Sarah's days on the edge of the prairie are idyllic if tough, as she befriends and works with the Sioux women. But trouble is brewing. The Sioux tribes are wary of the white settlers and resent the rampant theft of their land.
When the Sioux take their fate into their own hands, Sarah's loyalties are split between the Sioux and her fellow white settlers. As the conflict rages, she finds herself lost to both worlds.
The first novel in ten years from the author of In the Cut and Miss Aluminium, this is a story about freedom and oppression, intimacy and violence, and a woman caught in the crossfire of one of the most seminal and shameful moments in American history.©2023 Susanna Moore (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited
Critic Reviews
A breathtaking tale of love and war on the 19th-century American frontier . . . Impressively taut and evocative . . . A captivating period piece that brings life on the frontier into vivid, often brutal focus through the prism of female experience . . . Although at first glance, The Lost Wife appears to be very different to Moore's most famous work, her erotically-charged thriller In the Cut, both novels are intimately concerned with sex, violence and language (Lucy Scholes)
Her writing is so precise and perceptive, so disturbing, frightening and erotic all at once . . . this profoundly clever woman with her life in her hands (Lucie Whitehouse, author of Before We Met)
Moore is often called a "cult" writer. I find her to be one of the most compelling novelists alive. The Lost Wife is concise and brutally incisive . . . As ever, Susanna Moore is unflinching (Stephanie Danler)
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