Lansens, Lori. <br/><br/>
The wife's tale / 
Lori Lansens. 
 - Pbk. ed. 
 - London :  Virago,  2010, c2009. 
 - 373 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn't come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781844086177 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wives--Fiction.<br/>Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.6