{"product_id":"9781526693587-retail-novel-about-my-wife","title":"Novel About My Wife","description":"Rejacketed edition of the darkly gripping novel by the Ockham Prize-winning author of  Lioness Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. Novel About My Wife  is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession. Emily Perkins  is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories,  Not Her Real Name , and four novels, including  Novel About My Wife  (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year,  The Forrests  (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and  Lioness  (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction).","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49281371635931,"sku":"9781526693587-RETAIL","price":19.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4a605ec8-93d6-4e0f-acea-976dd2d654d3.jpg?v=1789125126","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781526693587-retail-novel-about-my-wife","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}