Man and wife : a novel
(2021)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos Audiobooks, 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (1380 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781781983737 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT14300824, 1781983739 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 14300824
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Nicholas Boulton
Published 10 years after Collins's most popular novel The Woman in White, Man and Wife centres on the confused and inequitable marriage laws of 19th-century Britain, reflecting the author's own antipathy towards the institution. The plot follows the fortunes of a woman who, committed to marriage with one man, comes to believe that she may have inadvertently married his friend, according to the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. Collins shows himself to be a masterly storyteller, seamlessly moving the action from a country house to a suburb of London, and into a world of deceit and murder
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