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| Author | Brian Moore |
|---|---|
| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US) McClelland & Stewart (Canada) Jonathan Cape (UK) |
Publication date | 1976 |
| Preceded by | The Great Victorian Collection (1975) |
| Followed by | The Mangan Inheritance (1979) |
The Doctor's Wife is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published in 1976 (by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom, by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States and by McClelland & Stewart in Canada). Shortlisted for the Booker Prize,[1] it tells the story of Sheila Redden, a doctor's wife from Belfast, who takes an American lover eleven years her junior while in Paris.[2] She then separates from both her husband and her new lover.
- ^ "The Doctor's Wife". The Booker Prize. 1976. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ "His Own Pursuit of An Older Woman Sparked Brian Moore's Latest Novel". People. 25 October 1976. Retrieved 7 August 2020.