The Engineers Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood
The Engineers Wife, Tracey Enerson Wood
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The Engineer's Wife

Author: Tracey Enerson Wood

Narrator: Libby McKnight

Unabridged: 14 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/07/2020


Synopsis

She built a monument for all time.

Then she was lost in its shadow.

Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determined
to make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.

Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold and her life transformed when Wash, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn
Bridge, is injured on the job. Untrained for the task, but under his guidance, she assumes his role, despite stern resistance
and overwhelming obstacles. Lines blur as Wash’s vision becomes her own, and when he is unable to return to the job, Emily
is consumed by it. But as the project takes shape under Emily’s direction, she wonders whose legacy she is building—hers,
or her husband’s. As the monument rises, Emily’s marriage, principles, and identity threaten to collapse. When the bridge
finally stands finished, will she recognize the woman who built it?

Based on the true story of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Engineer’s Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed
by a project of unfathomable scale, which takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette riots, the halls of Manhattan’s
elite, and the heady, freewheeling temptations of P. T. Barnum. It’s the story of a husband and wife determined to build
something that lasts—even at the risk of losing each other

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette on February 21, 2020

Many of us have walked over the Brooklyn Bridge, but probably most of us don’t know the story behind this bridge and what an enormous achievement back then it was to build such grand bridge and to take on such massive project. And the dedication it took. 1865, Emily Warren marries Captain Washington......more

Goodreads review by Karren on November 19, 2020

Thank to NetGalley, Tracey Enerson Wood and Lume Books for my copy of The Engineer's Wife. In 1865, Emily Warren married Captain Washington Roebling, they met during the American Civil War and Wash was her older brother’s Gouverneur Kemble Warren’s aide. The couple was instantly attracted to each oth......more