An Inconvenient Wife By Megan Chance

401 pages
ISBN: (reprints)
978-1-936632-14-5 (ebook)
978-1-936632-15-2 (pbk)

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An Inconvenient Wife

With Susannah Morrow, Megan Chance proved herself a writer of extraordinary talent, one whose evocative prose brilliantly conjured up the past. Now she has written an unforgettable novel that illuminates the cruel injustices of an age when a woman was forced to be docile and obedient, to deny her passions, to forgo her dreams.

Lucy Carelton comes from one of the richest and most pedigreed families in 1880s Gilded Age New York city, but being the perfect society wife is becoming increasingly difficult for her. Hysteria and laudanum seem to be her only escape from her domineering husband and father; she longs for something she cannot name, and after seeing numerous doctors, she believes she might never find relief.

Then she meets Dr. Victor Seth, a controversial neurologist. When her husband hires him to “fix” her, Lucy is reluctant. There’s something about Dr. Seth she doesn’t like, something almost frightening about him. But Victor Seth promises salvation, and his methods are unlike any other doctor’s. Soon, Lucy finds herself responding eagerly to his treatment and Dr. Seth’s promises.

But the enigmatic doctor has his own plans, and before long his actions have consequences that no one could have expected … least of all Lucy herself.

Praise for An Inconvenient Wife:

Indienext Booksense Pick Summer 2006

"This is the novel Edith Wharton might have written if she had lived in the 21st Century."

- The Seattle Times

"Wholly absorbing … [A] diabolically clever, thoroughly entertaining take on women’s liberation."

- Booklist

"This is an incredible novel with an ending that will leave you breathless!"

- Kelly Dickinson, Oregon State University, Booksense Summer 2006

"In this gripping historical, Chance exposes the horrors women faced in late 19th-century New York when they dared to show passion of any kind of repudiate society’s norms… The role of the unconscious mind and its impact on conscious behavior is explored in depth here, and Chance ends this lightning-paced narrative with a clever twist underscoring the risks one woman takes to be her own person." - Publisher’s Weekly

"Set in the era and among the social class most famously chronicled in the novels of Edith Wharton, the story combines elements from classic feminist lit. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening collides with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper—with a denouement straight out of Hitchcock."

- The Capital Times

"Filled with thrills, drama, intrigue, intellect and romance, An Inconvenient Wife is a stunning creation…"

- Carly Hope, Enpowerment4Women.org

"An Inconvenient Wife is a must read, as well as being a book that is bound to spur many a heated conversation."

- Roundtablereviews.com