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Book Spotlight: Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon & Giveaway (US only)

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Today I am spotlighting Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon which releases today!  I’ve started this book and I’m really enjoying it although I’m not far enough to make a solid judgement but usually when I like a book right off it’s a winner for me.  So we’re going to see what the book is about and learn a bit about the author and of course there will be a giveaway at the end of the post that gives you a chance to win a copy for yourself so be sure to check that out!

 

 

About Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon

For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’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.

When Alice Buckle, who has been married to William for nearly twenty years, receives a survey in her e-mail from the Netherfield Center for the Study of Marital Happiness, she is in the doldrums. She loves her husband but they’ve grown distant, she is bored with her job, and her adolescent children need her less now. And she has reached the age at which her mother died. So as she idly begins answering the questions, she finds herself baring her soul in an anonymous survey she never even intended to respond to. As she struggles, she realizes it has been years since anyone asked deep, serious questions of her, and really listened to her answers. Soon her entire life as she knows it is called into question.

Read an excerpt
Buy Wife 22 at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, B&N, iBookstore, and IndieBound

 

Enjoy the Book Trailer…

 

About Melanie Gideon

Melanie Gideon is the author of the memoir The Slippery Year: A Meditation on Happily Ever After, an NPR and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2009, and a New York Times bestseller, as well as three young adult novels. Her novel, Wife 22 (to be published in 30 countries and translated into 26 languages and currently in development with Working Title Films) is forthcoming from Ballantine in May 2012. She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, More, Shape, Marie Claire, the London Times, the Daily Mail and other publications. She was born and raised in Rhode Island and now lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son. Wife 22 is her first novel for adults.

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GIVEAWAY DETAILS (US only)

I have 2 copies of Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon to share with my US readers only (sorry).  To enter…

  • For 1 entry simply leave me a comment entering the giveaway.
  • For 2 entries, follow my blog.  If you already do, thank you, and please let me know in your comment so I can pass the extra entry on to you as well.
  • For 3 entries, blog or tweet this giveaway and spread the word.

This giveaway is open to US residents only (no PO boxes) and I will draw for the winners on Saturday, June 16/12.  Good luck to all!

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  1. I saw this book in a magazine and put it on my TBR list. Thank you for the chance to win it. I do follow your blog via Google RSS

  2. I usually read historical fiction, but sometimes I want to read something more current. this sounds like an interestint novel. Thanks for the giveaway.

    I’m a Google follower

  5. This does sound rather interesting, and very introspective. I like that, and would love to find out what eventually happens with Alice and her marriage. Great spotlight today, Dar! Please do enter me in your giveaway!

    zibilee(at)figearo(dot)net

  6. Thank you for hosting another great giveaway, Darlene! This book sounds very good, and I’ve posted this giveaway in my blog’s sidebar. I’m a follower of your terrific book blog.

    suko95(at)gmail(dot)com

  7. This is already on my wish list! Sure would like to see that list of questions.
    Email subscriber, FB, Networked blogs follower.

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  13. Oh … I’ve been thinking about reading this. The description just sucked me in. Please enter me in your awesome giveaway. Thank you.

  22. I would love to win/read this book. It sounds terrific.

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  26. Wow, from what I read in the review, this sounds like a book I can relate to.
    pjames330 at aol dot com

  29. I’d love to win a copy of this book! Thanks for the chance.

    nancyecdavis AT bellsouth DOT net

  35. I think this book sounds fascinating. Many of the reviews of read by bloggers rave about this book which made me even more curious!

    Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway!

    +2 I’m an ‘elderly’ follower (heee, heee)

    Aimala127(at)gmail(dot)com

  37. I have been hearing about this book for what seems like forever. I would love to own it.