Wife 22 -

Melanie Gideon

HarperTorch

2013

477 páginas

15h 54m

ISBN-13: 9780007425501

For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.

Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.

But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).

And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.

7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.

Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.

But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions.

As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac

Resenhas (133)

5 (Perfeito)

AMEI do início ao fim!

Um enredo atual, moderno, incluindo emails, mensagens no celular e Facebook.
Alice é uma personagem que me cativou e com quem tive uma identificação imediata. Uma mulher madura de 44 anos, muito dedicada aos dois filhos e casada com Willian a 20 anos. Sem que o marido saiba e passando por uma fase difícil no relacionamento deles, ela começa a responder pela internet a uma pesquisa sobre "casamento" e aos poucos vai se envolvendo com o pesquisador e sentindo uma liberdade de escrever para ele coisas que ela não teria coragem de contar nem para a melhor amiga.
Apesar de ser uma leitura leve e bem humorada, o assunto pode ser profundo e revelador se pararmos para refletir.
Eu gostei muito e acho que a leitura vai agradar principalmente pessoas mais maduras e casadas, pois as jovens e solteiras, por não terem vivido a experiência do casamento, podem não entender o que Alice está passando.
O final é ótimo assim como a estória toda!

UMA DICA: Dentro do livro só aparecem as respostas que Alice dá ao questionário deixando o leitor com dúvida sobre o que foi perguntado. Mas nas páginas finais tem todas as perguntas. Então se você for curioso e quiser saber qual a pegunta é só dar um "pulinho" nas últimas páginas. (Só descobri isso quando já estava na metade do livro...hehehe)