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Praise for The Silent Wife
A. S. A. Harrison knocks it out of the park with her first novel, The Silent Wife. With a spare, elegant, and deft hand, she paints two dueling psychological portraits of longtime live-in lovers who become putative killer and hapless victim in a tale that no one is likely to forget anytime soon. I couldnt put this book down.
Elizabeth George, New York Times bestselling author of Believing the Lie
What a deliciously wicked pleasure The Silent Wife was to read. I love books where I cant guess the outcome, although I was rooting for Jodi all the way. A very clever, very funny comedy of manners spliced with a domestic thriller.
Kate Atkinson, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life and Case Histories
Beautifully written and deeply unsettling, this darkly funny examination of what happens when youve got nothing left to lose is also brilliantly addictive. It left me almost breathless as I raced toward the devastating finale.
S. J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep
SUPERB... As a novel about the dark side of marriage and relationships, its better than Gillian Flynns Gone Girl. A must read for anyone who is occasionally ruthless, reckless, or psychologically weirdand anyone who loves clever books with depth and heart.
Sophie Hannah, author of The Other Womans House
Like a tiny crack in the windshield of destiny, The Silent Wife examines the ultimate shattering of a perfectly civilized marriage. Intense, hypnotic, and thoroughly absorbing, Harrison challenges her characters to venture beyond their comfort zones, into a world where anything is possible, even murder.
Elizabeth Brundage, author of A Stranger Like You and The Doctors Wife
This is an utterly compelling story, gorgeously written and with so many shocks and surprises that I raced through it to find out what happens next. My highest recommendation.
Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Gravity
A chilling portrait of a relationship gone terribly awry. Harrison takes the reader down a wickedly twisted path that has us at once rooting for and wary of the protagonists. A breathtaking story that will keep you reading well into the night and wide awake long after the final page.
Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence
A gripping story of deception, denial, and double-edged revenge. The Silent Wife combines taut pacing and psychological nuance to haunting and memorable effect.
Nancy Richler, author of The Imposter Bride
PENGUIN BOOKS
THE SILENT WIFE
A. S. A. Harrison is the author of four nonfiction books. The Silent Wife is her debut novel and she was at work on a new psychological thriller when she died in 2013. Harrison was married to the visual artist John Massey and lived in Toronto.
THE SILENT WIFE
A Novel
A. S. A. Harrison
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First published in Penguin Books 2013
Copyright A.S.A. Harrison, 2013
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ISBN 978-1-101-60806-7
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PUBLISHERS NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
To Jonathan
My gratitude goes to John Massey for traveling the road with me; to Beth Kapusta, my first and best reader; to psychotherapists Diane Scally and Elly Roselle for sharing their knowledge and insights across lifetimes; to Margaret Dragu for showing me the inside of club life; and to Bruce Bailey for generously loaning his domiciles. For dedicated location scouting Im grateful to Lisa Harrison, Chelsea Nash-Wolfe, Barb Webb, Steve Reinke, and Philip von Zweck. No one deserves thanks more than my agents, Samantha Haywood and Kimberly Witherspoon, and William Callahan is also to be acknowledged. As well, my appreciation goes to my editors, Tara Singh, Adrienne Kerr, and Marion Donaldson, and to copy editor Sheila Moody. Last but not least, Im indebted to Karyn Marcus for the edit that changed everything.
HER AND HIM
HER
Its early September. Jodi Brett is in her kitchen, making dinner. Thanks to the open plan of the condo, she has an unobstructed view through the living room to its east-facing windows and beyond to a vista of lake and sky, cast by the evening light in a uniform blue. A thinly drawn line of a darker hue, the horizon, appears very near at hand, almost touchable. She likes this delineating arc, the feeling it gives her of being encircled. The sense of containment is what she loves most about living here, in her aerie on the twenty-seventh floor.
At forty-five, Jodi still sees herself as a young woman. She does not have her eye on the future but lives very much in the moment, keeping her focus on the everyday. She assumes, without having thought about it, that things will go on indefinitely in their imperfect yet entirely acceptable way. In other words, she is deeply unaware that her life is now peaking, that her youthful resiliencewhich her twenty-year marriage to Todd Gilbert has been slowly erodingis approaching a final stage of disintegration, that her notions about who she is and how she ought to conduct herself are far less stable than she supposes, given that a few short months are all it will take to make a killer out of her.
If you told her this she would not believe you. Murder is barely a word in her vocabulary, a concept without meaning, the subject of stories in the news having to do with people she doesnt know and will never meet. Domestic violence she finds especially implausible, that everyday friction in a family setting could escalate to such a degree. There are reasons for this incomprehension, even aside from her own habit of self-control: She is no idealist, believes in taking the bad with the good, does not pick fights, and is not easily baited.
The dog, a golden retriever with a silky blond coat, sits at her feet as she works at the cutting board. Every now and then she throws him a slice of raw carrot, which he catches in his mouth and joyfully grinds up with his molars. This vegetable toss is a long-standing predinner ritual, one that she and the dog have enjoyed from the time she brought him home as a roly-poly pup to take Todds mind off his yearning for progeny, which sprang up, seemingly overnight, around the time he turned forty. She named the dog Freud in anticipation of the fun she could poke at his namesake, the misogynist whom she was forced to take seriously at university. Freud passing gas, Freud eating garbage, Freud chasing his tail. The dog is endlessly good-natured and doesnt mind in the least being an object of fun.
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