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Fantastic!
I absolutely loved this!
Billed as a modern twist on the Stepford Wives, this is by turns hilarious and rage inducing, and there's a steady increase of s... READ MORE
A solid domestic thriller that cleverly explores women’s mental load.
‘click click’ what if you could change your husband to be the one who does the household chores; who knows when the next school photo day is coming up and ... READ MORE
Synopsis
'A howl of feminist rage, but also one that is pure fun' Stylist
The wives here are different. They are living proof that women can have it all: successful careers, loving families, beautiful homes.
Their husbands are different too. They are living proof that men can do just as much as women. They can remember the kids' schedules, use an iron and notice when the house needs dusting.
Nora thinks she's found the perfect new home for her family. But when she agrees to get involved in a wrongful death case in the neighbourhood, Nora becomes convinced that there's a dark secret at the heart of this perfect world.
For these women, it seems the secret to having it all is worth killing for . . .
'This gender-swapping Stepford Wives story is as creepy as it is delicious' Good Housekeeping
Publisher information
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780751575187
- Number of pages: 352
- Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 26 mm
- Weight: 240g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allAn interesting take on equalling the mental load of working mums
I enjoyed this and found the story line intriguing. As a wife and mother myself, I identified with many of the issues that were raised in the book about hu... READ MORE
Aren't men useless
The Husbands highlights how useless most men are without a woman to make them look good. This story has an amusing premise: what if men could be trained to... READ MORE
Loved it
A couple with children are looking to move house; they find a home within a community which seems too good to be true, then there is a death of one of the ... READ MORE
Stepford Wives Thriller
I received an ARC of this novel in an exchange for an honest review thanks to NetGalley. I read this book within a few days. I’m interested to see what the... READ MORE
Great read!
Nora Spangler is exhausted. Working as a lawyer, trying to make partner, she’s pregnant with her second child and the mental load is real. She’s fighting t... READ MORE
A domestic noir with a clever twist
My thanks to Little, Brown Book Group/Sphere for an eARC via NetGalley, of ‘The Husbands’ by Chandler Baker in exchange for an honest review.
I had enjoye... READ MORE
A Cracking Read!
I enjoyed reading Chandler Baker’s ‘The Whisper Network’ and very much welcomed the opportunity to read another of her thrillers. This was a bold, fantasti... READ MORE
No change then
No change then
Initially I found this book quite slow and seemed to cover old ground, which is the uneven distribution of domesticity between household par... READ MORE
Spoiled by its own blurb
I’ve written before about my hatred of taglines when it comes to marketing for books. ‘A twist you WILL NEVER SEE coming’ is a particular bugbear – well no... READ MORE
Stepford Wives Thriller
I received an ARC of this novel in an exchange for an honest review thanks to NetGalley. I read this book within a few days. I’m interested to see what the... READ MORE
Domestic thriller with a feminist spin!
I’m honestly gutted that I didn’t get to rave about this one closer to its publication date because it really is great. This is a deeply compelling and sus... READ MORE
An Intriguing Read
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
The Husbands
Nora and her husband live a good life, have one daughter and another baby on the way. They both work extremely hard and decide that a move to a bigger hou... READ MORE
Interesting spin on domestic noir!
3.5 rounded up
Like women, men come on all shapes and sizes and degrees of helpfulness and initiative especially in terms of the home and childcare. Nora... READ MORE
What is the price of perfection?
The Husbands is my first Chandler Baker book and I loved it. Think a cross between a Liane Moriarty book and the Stepford Wives and turn it on it's head. I... READ MORE
Stepford husbands
I absolutely adore my husband-he's lovely and helpful and almost perfect. HOWEVER. I get frequent migraines, and one of the things that helps is putting on... READ MORE
An engrossing and entertaining read
Having read and enjoyed Ira Levin's 1972 classic The Stepford Wives a few years ago, I found Chandler Baker's new release The Husbands a fascinating re-ima... READ MORE
Do you really want the perfect husband?
A great account of how a woman who has a career and a family is expected to do everything. The story is centered around Nora who meets a new group of frien... READ MORE
Equally entertaining and frustrating!
Despite how frustrating I found The Husbands, it was a compelling read - if only for the reasons that I was hoping against hope that the main character, No... READ MORE
pure escapism
Desperate Housewives meets Stepford Wives in this bonkers domestic thriller of a book. It's easy to see why the film rights have been bought as this is goi... READ MORE