The Judges Wife, Ann OLoughlin
The Judges Wife, Ann OLoughlin
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The Judge's Wife

Author: Ann O'Loughlin

Narrator: Alana Kerr Collins

Unabridged: 7 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/27/2018


Synopsis

*Shortlisted for a 2017 RoNA Award*The poignant, emotional story of three women, an adulterous affair, and one great love that changes their lives forever.With her whole life ahead of her, beautiful young Grace’s world changes forever when she’s married off to a much older judge. Soon, feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram—he’s charming, thoughtful, and kind, everything her husband is not. But this is 1950s Ireland, and when she falls pregnant, the potential scandal must be dealt with. As soon as she has given birth, Grace is sent to an asylum by the judge, while Vikram, told that Grace died in childbirth, returns to India heartbroken.Thirty years later, after the judge’s death, his estranged daughter Emma returns home to pack up his estate, where she finds Grace’s diaries and begins to piece together the life of the mother she never knew. Meanwhile, Vikram is planning a long-awaited return to Ireland with his much-loved niece Rosa—who has grown up hearing all about her uncle’s long-lost love—to stand, at last, at the grave of the woman he adores. When the judge’s will is finally read, revealing he has sent letters to Vikram and Emma, the deception spanning both decades and continents finally begins to unravel, exposing long-buried family secrets along the way and raising the question of if true love can last a lifetime.

About Ann O'Loughlin

Ann O’Loughlin is an internationally bestselling author and a leading journalist in Ireland covering all major news events of the past three decades, including the Irish orphan scandal. She was a security correspondent at the height of the Troubles and was a senior journalist at the Irish Independent and Evening Herald. She is currently a senior journalist with the Irish Examiner newspaper covering legal issues. She lives on the east coast of Ireland with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly

3.5 There were many scandals in Ireland in the 1950's and Grace gets caught up in one that sends her away to an asylum. Her older husband, a wealthy and respected judge named Martin along with his Aunt Violet has her committed as soon as she has given birth to a daughter who has died. They both claim......more

Goodreads review by Anne

The Judge's Wife is a story that really does pack a punch, it offers an insight into the terrible injustices carried out against innocent women in Ireland between the 1930s and 1950s. Although this is a fictional story, it is horrifying because we know that it could be true. These things really did......more

Goodreads review by Gaele

The premise of this story is wonderful: a young Irish woman is embroiled in an affair with an Indian doctor resulting in a child. Young wife’s controlling (and coldly efficient) aunt and husband (the judge) remove wife from the house to an asylum, and tell her paramour that death was the result of c......more