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'Tender, wise, and thoroughly compelling' R.O. Kwon'A searing, beautiful book' KILEY REID'Marvelous' THE WASHINGTON POST'Humour! Verve! Soul! This novel has it all' EMMA COPLEY EISENBERG*Featured in NPR's 'Books We Love 2025' List*Susan ‘Zuzu’ Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder ‘what if’.What if she had chosen to live with her father instead of her mother after their divorce? To pursue art over law? And, most importantly, to pursue her feelings for her male best friend from college, Cash, instead of marrying Agnes?When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, over a single wintery weekend, the questions in Zuzu’s mind become too loud to ignore. She grapples with the choices she’s made and the knowledge that she doesn’t have infinite time to make changes in her life.The Other Wife speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that’s particular to the beginning of middle age; it is heartfelt and daring in its reckoning with the quest for joy.

“Extraordinary. A story about belonging in liminal spaces, and longing for things seemingly just out of reach. A searing, beautiful book.” —Kiley Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Come and Get It"Complex and enduring...We would follow Zuzu anywhere." —Oprah DailyWhat would you risk for a second chance with the one who got away?Zuzu met Cash on the first day of college, and nothing was ever the same. Tall, witty, and popular, Cash’s friendship represented a kind of belonging for Zuzu, who had always felt like an outsider growing up mixed race in her rural hometown. Though their friendship was charged with longing, it never progressed to romance. Now approaching her forties, Zuzu has built a stable life with her wife Agnes, but she’s haunted by the choices that have shaped her. When a sudden loss pulls Zuzu back to her hometown, she begins to unwind the turns that have led her here. Will she embrace the life she’s made, or risk everything for a chance to chase the past? A novel that speaks to the unfulfilled desires and euphoric nostalgia that’s particular to the beginning of middle age, The Other Wife is as heartfelt as it is daring in its deep reckoning with the past and quest for true joy.

'A searing, beautiful book' KILEY REID, bestselling author of SUCH A FUN AGESusan ‘Zuzu’ Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder ‘what if’.What if she had chosen to live with her father instead of her mother after their divorce? To pursue art over law? And, most importantly, to pursue her feelings for her male best friend from college, Cash, instead of marrying Agnes?When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, over a single wintery weekend, the questions in Zuzu’s mind become too loud to ignore. She grapples with the choices she’s made and the knowledge that she doesn’t have infinite time to make changes in her lifeThe Other Wife speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that’s particular to the beginning of middle age; it is heartfelt and daring in its reckoning with the quest for joy.'Tender, wise, and thoroughly compelling' R.O. Kwon, author of THE INCENDIARIES'A marvellous study in how much desire lives in memory, in nostalgia and in fantasy' THE WASHINGTON POST

'A searing, beautiful book' KILEY REID, bestselling author of SUCH A FUN AGESusan ‘Zuzu’ Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she’s always dreamed of – a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time, and she can’t help but wonder ‘what if’.What if she had chosen to live with her father instead of her mother after their divorce? To pursue art over law? And, most importantly, to pursue her feelings for her male best friend from college, Cash, instead of marrying Agnes?When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, over a single wintery weekend, the questions in Zuzu’s mind become too loud to ignore. She grapples with the choices she’s made and the knowledge that she doesn’t have infinite time to make changes in her lifeThe Other Wife speaks to unfulfilled desires and the euphoric nostalgia that’s particular to the beginning of middle age; it is heartfelt and daring in its reckoning with the quest for joy.'Tender, wise, and thoroughly compelling' R.O. Kwon, author of THE INCENDIARIES'A marvellous study in how much desire lives in memory, in nostalgia and in fantasy' THE WASHINGTON POST