The Editor's Wife

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After the morning skate, Bowness was asked about his wife's recovery, telling reporters she's "doing about as well as we could expect. She's getting stronger everyday." This book is written with an air of something different. It's hard to explain, but it isn't the most dramatic book in the world, you aren't gripped by the hijinks of it all, more so the simple and almost airy way this book is written. It's beautiful, to the point and easy to follow. You really get a feel for these characters, their connections with one another and the impacts that their actions have on one another. Ultimately, my favourite dynamics ended up being the ones that should have been awkward, I loved seeing how Chris and Gerald interact. How they go from standoffish to actually kind of having a semblance of a brotherly relationship. I loved seeing Chris and Carol in their post-divorce unnatural friendship that worked in every way. I think this author writes about relationships very well. There's no sugarcoating to make them perfect, there are bumps and ugly parts, which ultimately makes it more relatable and easier to picture. One of my favourite reads of last year was the novel “Small Pleasures” (2020) by Clare Chambers. I loved the careful, quiet details of the story, and I know it will be one I return to in the future. So I was delighted to find that this was the latest in a series of novels from the author, with “The Editor’s Wife” originally published in 2007, and now reissued with a beautiful new cover design. Somewhat lazily, the plot drifts for a few chapters as Chambers introduces us to Christopher’s relationship with Gerald, his brother, and his ex-wife. It is a meandering read at this point, but this was a novel where I liked these secondary characters more than the main one. Gerald, possibly with some form of learning difficulty, is semi-vagrant and semi-squatting in their father’s house after his death and delaying the inevitable sale of the property was a delight. And Carol, the ex-wife, was wonderfully self-obsessed – having left Christopher following an affair and marrying her lover, she proceeds to ask whether Christopher would donate sperm for her.

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For every good review there would be some that were quite ... people had a bit of a bee in their bonnet about certain things they thought we sounded too much like,” says Smith. “It was hard, to start with.” I loved every single one of Chambers’ flawed but genuine characters, From passive, let-life-pass-me-by Chris to quirky brother Gerald to sassy ex-wife Carol. I loved that they were all so different yet pulled together at a watershed moment when it mattered most. Bowness, in his second season as coach with the Jets, had been away from the club since Oct. 23, one day after his wife, Judy Bowness, had a seizure. The 68-year-old is in his 14th season as an NHL head coach and owns a 270-389-33 record with 48 ties in 740 career games behind the bench. Musicians Andy Burrows and Tom Smith on their special relationship". Paste Magazine. 14 November 2014 . Retrieved 20 December 2014. Twenty years on Christopher meets a woman who is researching Owen Goddard and he is forced to face his past and the consequences of his actions. The Editor’s Wife by Clare Chambers Review: My OpinionWhen aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder’s mate), his family is sceptical. We don’t have to have sex, if that’s what’s bothering you. You can jerk off into a beaker. That’s no problem”