Look to Your Wife

Look to Your Wife
Paula Byrne

A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life. Lisa Blaize – teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife – feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a school in a country town. Isolated and far from her metropolitan upbringing, she turns to the one place where she learns she can be uninhibited.But ‘Twitter may be my undoing’, Lisa discovers as her one-time private life becomes all too public. Soon she is dealing with an online stalker and her husband’s reputation is put at risk, but will she be able to give up her addiction?From the gossip of the classroom to our obsession with instant communication, Look To Your Wife is witty and brilliantly observed, revealing the pleasures and pains of contemporary life.

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Dedication (#ua9b6b022-3b8c-5b0b-a815-80f9b5de8ab3)

For Matthew

Epigraph (#ua9b6b022-3b8c-5b0b-a815-80f9b5de8ab3)

So will I turn her virtue into pitch,

And out of her own goodness make the net

That shall enmesh them all.

William Shakespeare, Othello

Without the Tweets, I wouldn’t be here.

Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, interviewed in the Oval Office

Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called ‘tweets.’ Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users are identified by a ‘handle,’ indicated by an ‘at’ sign.

Lisa Blaize @Lisa_Blaize

Twitter may be my undoing!

Contents

Cover (#u426348d6-7298-5e6b-9327-090fe4ef4fb0)

Title Page (#uc9819d76-3d87-5dbc-93e2-d754d6e5aba4)

Copyright (#u7d2c1542-4a71-522f-a822-dc7ca946a22e)

Dedication (#u4bd96540-0fa0-5b1d-81bf-a5208801d945)

Epigraph (#u39bf19f0-ec7a-5f2d-b14d-54c7570ff421)

PRELUDE: The Letter (#u89692484-bd2b-5c26-8501-0aa29055b181)

PART ONE: Innocence (#u5ae27148-0aef-54de-81ac-d5c69307772c)

CHAPTER 1: Hamlet Cocks Up (#u55fb331b-4a97-5910-aca6-19523891ac93)

CHAPTER 2: Lisa (#uc358f6ab-541c-5133-a9d0-6db29cfef468)

CHAPTER 3: After the Party (#uf8daf8dc-2d45-5da3-9f38-b1af9d48cf8c)

CHAPTER 4: The Truth Will Set You Free (#ua7a204a5-b2da-5947-8acc-0d4e4d31c62a)

CHAPTER 5: ‘I’m Going to Rescind that Ticket, Sir’ (#ua1fdd56a-2fa2-5cb7-b649-5c0b22dec184)

CHAPTER 6: Missy (#u92f631f2-0143-5162-8336-8f9fcdd9c98d)

CHAPTER 7: The Fashion Mistress (#ue96b7a50-74c4-572e-bcca-2d3572c40e04)

CHAPTER 8: Drugs Chat (#litres_trial_promo)

PART TWO: Guilt (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 9: DMs (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 10: Meaningful Coincidences (#litres_trial_promo)