The Rector’s Wife
About this audiobook
For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband’s surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness.
Faced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna finally rebels. She takes a job in a supermarket, earning money and a sense of her own worth, along the disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband.
At the same time, she is observed with passionate interest by three men, each of whom plays a role in the part-tragic, part-triumphant blossoming of her life.
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About the author
Joanna Trollope (1943–2025) was the author of historical novels and a study of women in the British Empire. However, she became best known for her lively contemporary novels, often centered on the nuances and dilemmas of domestic life in England. Her novel Parson Harding’s Daughter won the 1980 Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. She was awarded the OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honors List for services to literature. She was a descendant of nineteenth-century English novelist Anthony Trollope.
Wanda McCaddon (d. 2023) narrated well over six hundred titles for major audiobook publishers, sometimes with the pseudonym Nadia May or Donada Peters. She earned the prestigious Audio Award for best narration and numerous Earphones Awards. She was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine.
