Description
The Wife Who Ran Away by Tess Stimson is a contemporary romantic fiction novel about Kate Forrest, a forty-year-old wife and mother who feels increasingly invisible in her own life. Her husband, Ned, seems to take her for granted, her teenage children are becoming increasingly difficult, her career is going nowhere and her demanding mother constantly calls. With her fortieth birthday approaching, Kate impulsively walks away from her job, her family and her responsibilities and boards a plane to Italy.
In Italy, Kate embraces a life without ties or obligations and becomes caught up in the romance of la dolce vita — including an affair with a man barely half her age. But when a devastating threat to her family forces her to confront what she has left behind, Kate must decide between the life she once had and the future she could build for herself. Combining romance with themes of marriage, motherhood, identity, family and starting over, the novel explores what happens when an ordinary woman finally chooses to put herself first.
