num_pages: 376
description: From the New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes this scandalous New York Gilded Age novel full of family secrets affairs and even murder.Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: hes the scion of an old Knickerbocker family she grew up in a Tudor manor in England they had a whirlwind romance in London they have three year old twins on whom they dote and hes recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. Yes there are rumors that shes 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. Bays sister Janie forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter 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?
language: English
title: The English Wife
publisher: St. Martin's Press