{"product_id":"9780143787570-secondhand-four-respectable-ladies-seek-the-meaning-of-wife","title":"Four Respectable Ladies Seek the Meaning of Wife","description":"A hilarious and heart-warming novel about the true meaning of 'for better or worse' - both in marriage and in friendship.\n\n'Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there are many ways to be a wife,' the vicar informs the town ... \n\nIt's 1930, and as the Depression overtakes rural New South Wales, what it means to be a wife tests the four respectable ladies of Prospect to their very limit.\n\nLouisa Worthington fled to the city ten years ago, pregnant, poor and under a cloud of scandal. Now she's back - blonde and brazen - with her heart set on the married son of the town's mayor.\n\nAdelaide Nightingale, newly widowed and starved of romance, yearns for adoration, security and a version of herself defined by beauty not business.\n\nMaggie Albright dreams of empire building, but is hamstrung by her over-cautious husband, who grows less handsome by the day.\n\nThen there's Pearl Fletcher, happily married to Joe, the district's most successful sheep farmer, but protecting a secret that could tear their family apart.\n\nAnd hovering in the town's shadows is a ghost from their past. A man newly released from jail ruthlessly bent on exploiting the ladies' hopes and fears to get what he wants. And what he wants is Louisa . . .\n\n\nPraise for Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband\n'Loveable to the end . . . with a cast of colourful characters.' Herald Sun\n\n'Hilarious.' Marie Claire\n\n'A light, funny, warm-hearted read with occasional notes of darkness.' Books + Publishing","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810575036635,"sku":"9780143787570-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a0407b85-633c-4727-8472-5e15a78a356f.jpg?v=1779805479","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780143787570-secondhand-four-respectable-ladies-seek-the-meaning-of-wife","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}