Used book - The Rector's Wife, Joanna Trollope

Because she feels stifled in this dreary English village, where her husband, with his five parishes to serve, languishes in anticipation of a promotion that will never come. Anna, the vicar's wife, finds a job in the nearby supermarket. A first step towards freedom, to the scandal of her mediocre and boring entourage. At forty-two, with a strong appetite for life and ambition for her three children, Anna is by no means resigned to a life of habits and frustrations. The arrival of a rich and charming London intellectual precipitates the metamorphosis of this simple and attractive woman. A woman breaks free and rediscovers the power to live and love. In the tradition of great British novelists, Joanna Trollope possesses that inimitable gift for the poetry of everyday life and the art of making ordinary lives extraordinary, lives where nothing seemingly happens. Nothing, that is to say, everything.