The Wives of Bath
Susan Swan
A coming-of-age story with Gothic overtones, The Wives of Bath is the story of two teenagers attending Bath Ladies College near Toronto in 1963. Pauline ("Paulie") is a rebellious outsider, while Mary Beatrice ("Mouse") is painfully shy, in part because she has a hump which she names "Alice" and confides in. Paulie and Mouse become friends, and their curiosity about love, sexuality and the opposite sex leads them into complicated, painful situations. When a grisly murder occurs at the boarding school, the two girls are implicated.
The Wives of Bath was a finalist for the U.K.'s Guardian Fiction Prize and Ontario's Trillium Award.
Read an excerpt |Author interviews | More about this book
From the book
My name is Mouse Mouse Bradford. Mary Beatrice Bradford, if you want to be long-winded about it. I'm sixteen now, the same age Paulie was when she performed her weird, Napoleonic act of self-assertion. It was my father's scalpel she used, not the X-Acto knife mentioned in the news a B-P Rib Back surgical blade, one and three-quarter inches long and brand-new.
From The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan1994. Published by Vintage Canada.
Author interviews
_(720p).jpg)
 OFFICIAL HD MUSIC VIDEO.jpg)
.jpg)
