The Doctor's Wife (Moore novel)

The Doctor's Wife

First Canadian edition
Author Brian Moore
Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux (US)
McClelland & Stewart (Canada)
Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date
1976

The Doctor's Wife is a novel by Northern Irish-Canadian writer Brian Moore, published (by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom) in 1976. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize,[1] it tells the story of Sheila Redden, a doctor's wife from Belfast, who takes an American lover eleven years her junior while in Paris. She then separates from both her husband and her new lover.

References

  1. "Brian Moore". The Man Booker Prizes. Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2015.


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