Melanie Gideon

“Refreshing, original, and crackling with energy, Wife 22 is a brilliant, engrossing novel about the way we love and live now. Prepare to be dazzled.” —Elin Hildebrand, author of Summerland

“The delightful, compulsively readable Wife 22 manages to be both funny and thought-provoking on the eternal question: after many years of marriage, how do two people keep their love vital? Alice Buckle’s hilarious search for greater happiness will resonate with readers of all backgrounds.” —Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

“Well, isn’t this a fun read! Not only fun, but funny. Not only funny, but wildly inventive. Not only wildly inventive, but poignant.” —Elizabeth Berg, author of Once Upon a Time, There was you

“Wife 22 is absolutely fresh, vibrant, au courant and hilarious. As you read, you will swear that this deft novelist hacked your phone and unearthed your longtime marital secrets and maternal struggles with a keen ear and an open heart. Brilliant! Melanie Gideon owns the moment.” —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker’s Wife

“Absolutely delicious! What Bridget Jones did for single women, Alice Buckle will do for married ones…Melanie Gideon’s Wife 22 is a fabulously funny contemplation of relationships and parenthood in the twenty-first century.” —Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Four Ms. Bradwells and The Wednesday Sisters

“WIFE 22 is not just clever, it is a funny, wise, and ultimately tender and revealing portrait of contemporary family life, of a marriage, and a wife and mother, and her all-important circle of friends in mid-life straits.” —Mary Kay Andrews author of Spring Fever

“I loved it, loved it, loved it. It’s so funny and true and sad and real and clever and of-the-moment. Also so hopeful and wise and ultimately heartwarming.” —Marian Keyes, author of This Charming Man