The Doctor’s Wife
Synopsis
Forty-something, a surgeon’s wife, Mrs. Sheila Redden of Ireland arrives in Paris en route to the south of France for a second honeymoon. She has booked the same hotel room as the first honeymoon. Her husband, Kevin, is delayed by his surgical obligations, and promises to join her, but she knows that he is not keen on the trip. While in Paris she meets Tom, an American at least ten years younger who follows her to the south. They begin a love affair that overwhelms her with its emotional and sexual power. The Doctor’s Wife is about an ordinary woman, in the middle of her life, seized by love for a younger man.
Author Biography
Brian Moore was born in August in 1921. He moved to Canada in 1948 where he worked as a reporter until moving to the United States in 1959. His first novel Judith Hearne was made into a film starring Dame Maggie Smith. In 1975 The Great Victorian Collection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; The Doctor’s Wife; The Colour of Blood; Lies of Silence. Brian Moore died at his home in Malibu, California in 1999 aged 77.
