Mrs. Hemingway: A Novel

"Naomi Wood writes so cleanly but so vividly, and you can feel Hemingway himself in her style in these stories of each of his four wives. There’s no waste, but a knife-like precision in every sentence. Sometimes her clarity almost takes your breath away. She evokes the spirit of each of the marriages so beautifully, taking us from Key West to the ruins of post-liberation Paris, allowing love to wilt into deception, and showing us delicately how each wife battles with letting Hemingway go. Every marriage, as his third wife observes, has to end with a three-card trick."