At her husband's funeral, Eden Marchetti receives a sealed envelope containing a list. Seven names. Seven women her husband had been "considering" as her replacement over the eleven years of their marriage. Summoning every woman on the list to the family estate for one private weekend, Eden expects answers. What she uncovers instead is a mirror: her own meticulously kept ledger of the very same women - the silent system of surveillance she built to protect her place as wife.
As truths detonate around the dinner table, Eden is forced to confront the uncomfortable question: was she ever the victim. or was she always complicit?Sharp, elegant, and quietly devastating, Wife Material is a literary page-turner about power, marriage, and the ledgers we keep - written or unwritten - when we think no one is watching. For fans of The Wife and Big Little Lies.
At her husband's funeral, Eden Marchetti receives a sealed envelope containing a list. Seven names. Seven women her husband had been "considering" as her replacement over the eleven years of their marriage. Summoning every woman on the list to the family estate for one private weekend, Eden expects answers. What she uncovers instead is a mirror: her own meticulously kept ledger of the very same women - the silent system of surveillance she built to protect her place as wife.
As truths detonate around the dinner table, Eden is forced to confront the uncomfortable question: was she ever the victim. or was she always complicit?Sharp, elegant, and quietly devastating, Wife Material is a literary page-turner about power, marriage, and the ledgers we keep - written or unwritten - when we think no one is watching. For fans of The Wife and Big Little Lies.