The Good Wife of Bath
Book Feature - The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
HBL Note: Karen Brooks is the Australian-born, internationally bestselling author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including The Locksmith’s Daughter, The Chocolate Maker’s Wife, and The Lady Brewer of London. Her latest, THE GOOD WIFE OF BATH, is about Eleanor who befriends the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married off at age 12, she is a woman described as “bold and libidinous,” while pursuing control over he own life. Chaucer had his say in Wife of Bath, now Eleanor gets to tell her version of the story. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
Book Feature - The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
From the publisher:
England, 1364: When married off at aged twelve to an elderly farmer, brazen redheaded Eleanor quickly realizes it won’t matter what she says or does, God is not on her side—or any poor woman’s for that matter. But then again, Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus and Mars, making her both a lover and a fighter.
Aided by a head for business (and a surprisingly kind husband), Eleanor manages to turn her first marriage into success, and she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune who becomes a trusted friend of the social-climbing poet Geoffrey Chaucer. But more marriages follow—some happy, some not—several pilgrimages, many lovers, murder, mayhem, and many turns of fortune’s wheel as Eleanor pursues the one thing that all women want: control of their own lives.
Book Feature - The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
