![]() Their advice turns out to be particularly poignant, reminding readers to what devastating effect women have been asked to deny themselves for the sake of their spouses. Alice’s discovery leads her to question her own marriage, and she finally decides to take charge of her life.Īlternating between Nellie’s and Alice’s story, Brown’s novel intersperses the narrative with excerpts from 1950s etiquette manuals, such as Don’ts for Wives and How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead in His Social and Business Life. ![]() When Alice unearths a cache of letters Nellie wrote but never sent to her mother, she decodes the terrible secret her predecessor has kept buried for many years. However, salvation presents itself in the guise of an old cookbook whose pages its previous owner, Nellie Murdoch, has laced with recipes and hints about what it meant to be a housewife in the 1950s. ![]() Worse, the inspiration she hopes to draw for her art is not forthcoming, and she longs for the city and ways to occupy her time. But while her husband, Nate, is enthusiastic about the change in their lifestyle, Alice feels at a loss in their vintage home, which she senses is haunted by a hostile presence. ![]() After a disaster at work, publicist Alice Hale leaves Manhattan to start over as a writer in the New York suburbs. ![]()
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