The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage (2005, Paperback, Reprint)

Â?The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.Â?

So begins The DoctorÂ's Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local womenÂ's health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husbandÂ's absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon HaasÂ?an affair that quickly goes awry when SimonÂ's wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.

Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class: Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.

Â?A fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest, and cheating spouses.Â?Â?Library Journal

Â?No character inhabiting this story will escape unscathed from the choices theyÂ've made... [a] well-crafted work.Â? Â?Ms. Magazine

The seemingly idyllic family life of Michael, a rising doctor who also works at an abortion clinic, and Annie, a teacher who is finding the role of doctor's wife stale, is threatened by a mysterious perpetrator who is either opposed to Michael's work or harboring violent feelings toward Annie. A first novel. Reprint.

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