Wives Like Us: A Novel Children's Books on Girls' & Women's Issues Ellie wakes up with fantastical

Ellie wakes up with fantastical powers that allow her to bring anything back to life with just her touch

Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970

or too un-cool

Matilde has tried for decades to cover the extent of her husband’s infidelity

nonverbal or both

Wives Like Us: A Novel Children's Books on Girls' & Women's Issues Ellie wakes up with fantasticalWives Like Us made me laugh so hard I actually knocked over my lamp. Can a book be so wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious that you would stumble through the night to find a new lightbulb just so you can keep reading way past your bedtime? In a word, yes." Kevin Kwan Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one (bereaved) butler; put