num_pages: 277
description: Awaiting her husband's arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden,quiet, middle-aged doctor's wife, suddenly finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with a young American, ten years her junior, this extraordinary powerful portrayal of a woman transformed by love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
language: English
title: The Doctor's Wife
titlecomplete: The Doctor's Wife
genres: Fiction, Ireland, France, Literature, Marriage, Novels, Contemporary, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 821
places: France
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux