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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Covered Wife
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'I think I have been here like this – still, but awake; quiet, but wound tight as a spring shoved into a box – since I lay down, not long after dark. But I must have slept, slept then woken, shifted from blessed nothingness to tortured waiting.

'Sarah is a smart, young lawyer working endless hours when she falls head over heels for Daniel – handsome, passionate and part of the kind of large, chaotically loving family Sarah longed for as the only child of a single mother.

'When Daniel introduces her to a charismatic young couple, Rabbi Menachem Lev and his wife, Chani, despite herself, Sarah is drawn in by their progressive beachside synagogue and the song, feasting and friendship that come with it. By the time she and Daniel move to the Jamison Valley with the other believers, Sarah can’t imagine life without the joy, purpose and love they’ve discovered.

'Four years on, youthful fervour has given way to something darker. As the community celebrates the wedding of a beautiful young convert and a much older divorcee, a series of terrifying truths emerges that tear Sarah’s world apart, and cause her to question everything – her faith, her marriage and her future.'

Source : publisher's blurb

Notes

  • Dedication : For AH, with love

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Seaforth, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pantera Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 397p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1st June 2021.
      ISBN: 9780648748915 (pbk), 9780648748922 (ebk)

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Books Roundup : The Covered Wife, One Hundred Days, Good Indian Daughter, Who Gets to Be Smart Ellen Cregan , Megan Cheong , Hardeep Dhanoa , Fiona Murphy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2021;

— Review of The Covered Wife Lisa Emanuel , 2021 single work novel ; One Hundred Days Alice Pung , 2021 single work novel ; Good Indian Daughter Ruhi Lee , 2021 single work autobiography
Books Roundup : The Covered Wife, One Hundred Days, Good Indian Daughter, Who Gets to Be Smart Ellen Cregan , Megan Cheong , Hardeep Dhanoa , Fiona Murphy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2021;

— Review of The Covered Wife Lisa Emanuel , 2021 single work novel ; One Hundred Days Alice Pung , 2021 single work novel ; Good Indian Daughter Ruhi Lee , 2021 single work autobiography
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