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The Rector's Wife

by Joanna Trollope

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Great book about real people in an English village. I've read two of her other books. The Choir was made into a BBC drama. (

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As usual, there were five of them on the village green, waiting for the school bus.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0425170551, Paperback)

Anna Bouverie is the rector's wife. She irons his surplices (badly), delivers the parish newsletter, and scrimps to get by on a pittance, all the while keeping up appearances. She rarely complains and rarely rebels. But now-as she watches her children do without, as her husband withdraws further into his work, and her frustration mounts into fury-Anna realizes that she's willing to do whatever it takes to save herself..."A novel of large ideas and small touches," (Boston Globe) The Rector's Wife "will be quickly devoured and long remembered" (USA Today).

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