Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

Three marriages reveal one man's elusive true self

Good Condition - with light cover scuffs and marks, small creases and slight curling at the edges. Retail sticker and brown marks on the back. Page edges are speckled; several larger brown spots mark the half-title edge.

Over twenty-five years, three women become Mrs. Kimble, each believing she has found something essential in the charming, adaptable Ken Kimble. Birdie is left trying to hold herself and her children together after his departure. Joan, recovering from private tragedy, hopes their relationship will offer a fresh beginning. Dinah, much younger and already connected to his first family, discovers another version of the man whose history has shaped them all. Their separate experiences gradually reveal the distance between his self-presentation and the lives he leaves behind. Jennifer Haigh tells the story through the women rather than the man at its centre, creating a novel about marriage, belief, reinvention and the compromises people make in pursuit of love and security.