WIFEDOM

Truly wonderful Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait Claire Tomalin A BLAZING GENRE BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIMELooking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell As she watches him create his writing self she tries to remember her own When she uncovers his forgotten wife it s a revelation Eileen O Shaughnessy s literary brilliance shaped Orwell s work and her practical nous saved his life But why and how was she written out of the story Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend Funder recreates the Orwells marriage through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London As she rolls up the screen concealing Orwell s private life she is led to question what it takes to be a writer and what it is to be a wife Compelling and utterly original Wifedom speaks to the unsung work of women everywhere today while offering a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past Simply a masterpiece Here Anna Funder not only re makes the art of biography she resurrects a woman in f