The Doctor's Wife

Steeped in psychological suspense, this debut novel tells of a dedicated young doctor, whose decision to moonlight at the local women's health center--the city's only provider of safe abortions--takes a toll on his family life after anonymous threats begin to arrive at their home.

aAppearances are deceiving in this psychological thriller . . . a compelling read.aa "The Boston Globe"

"aThe memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.a"

So begins "The Doctoras Wife," a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local womenas health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husbandas absences, and the soccer-mom lifestyle has worn thin. She begins a passionate love affair with bad-boy, fading celebrity painter Simon Haasaan affair that quickly goes awry when Simonas wife Lydia, who is also the model upon whom he built his career, discovers the truth.

Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class: Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.

aA fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest, and cheating spouses.aa"Library Journal"

aNo character inhabiting this story will escape unscathed from the choices theyave made... a] well-crafted work.a a"Ms. Magazine"