The Second Wife Read by Emma Fielding Published 22 June 2006

What could be sweeter than Revenge? The sequel.

The tables have turned on Minty Lloyd. The once irresistible mistress now finds herself deeply uneasy in her role as the second wife to her husband Nathan and mother of their twin boys. Though she has finally achieved the comfort and stability she once craved, family life has brought her more disappointment than she can admit, and she is yearning to rekindle the ambition, and career, she has left behind. She is also struggling, yet determined, to make her marriage work. "The trouble is", she cries, "Everything I do is second-hand." Meanwhile Rose, Nathan's first wife, is still high from her first victorious revenge and making her living as a glamorous travel journalist. Her life has never been more exhilirating and it shows and, as Minty sees only too clearly, her hold on Nathan is both disquieting and deep. The dark and destructive notes of jealousy and bitterness reverbate through this second marriage - until a dramatic and unexpected event forces both women to negotiate new areas of love and grief in unexpected ways.

Readers who cheered for Revenge of the Middle-Aged Women will find themselves drawn in once again by Elizabeth Buchan's signature gift for capturing women's daily joys and struggles. Revealing with humour and poignancy that things are not always what they seem, The Second Wife is an irresistible story of live, loss, and renewal that explores the nature of friendship, of survival and the bonds that sometimes grow strongest when stretched to breaking.