Name: Mrs. Hemingway
ISBN: 9780143124610

Naomi Wood

Based upon actual love letters and telegrams, describes fictionalized accounts of the lives and thoughts of each of Ernest Hemingway's four wives, describing what it was like to be loved by the dashing, adventurous novelist and member of the “Lost Generation.” Original.

Mrs. Hemingway

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a sentimental novellish biography of Hemingway and wives. i love the narrative style of this book.

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge and drink gin. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadleyâe(tm)s best friend. She is also Ernestâe(tm)s lover. Hadley is the first Mrs. Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernestâe(tm)s literary career will blaze a trail, but his marriages will be ignited by passion and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation, and each will be forced to ask herself how far she will go to remain his wifeâe¦ Luminous and intoxicating, Mrs. Hemingway portrays real lives with rare intimacy and plumbs the depths of the human heart.

Harry L

** spoiler alert **
           Really good book. I read it a book club read and it will definitely be an interesting one to discuss.
A little bit disconcerting (at first that is) to have so little backstory on each marriage and only hear about it from the point where it starts to go wrong, with flashbacks filling in some of the gaps. 
He sounds an impossible man to be married to and all 4 of these sound to be incredible women! Of the four I think my favourite of the wives was Fife, though I didn't expect her to be!

sarah

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Kay Jamieson

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail but threaten to overpower him, and his marriages will be ignited by desire and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation. Each will see him as no other has before and be forced to ask herself how far she would go to remain his wife...

Mrs. Hemingway

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