Carmela Ciuraru

Enjoyable, mildly gossipy skim through literary relationships. My favorites were the first and second sections (Una Trowbridge and [a:Radclyffe Hall|74248|Radclyffe Hall|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1238264970p2/74248.jpg] plus the Italian couple, [a:Elsa Morante|292578|Elsa Morante|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1588860218p2/292578.jpg] and [a:Albert Moravia|19557124|Albert Moravia|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]. I was spellbound by the disaster of most of the other marriages, [a:Elaine Dundy|158821|Elaine Dundy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1304301171p2/158821.jpg] and [a:Kenneth Tynan|357618|Kenneth Tynan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] was new scandal. The other husbands of [a:Elizabeth Jane Howard|113328|Elizabeth Jane Howard|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1264002881p2/113328.jpg] and [a:Patricia Neal|706824|Patricia Neal|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] reinforced my satisfaction to be born here and now.… (mere)

I did not care for this book. It is a story of how 5 women capitulated to the whims of their writer husbands to the detriment of their own careers/life. The book follows couples Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia, Elaine Dundy and Kenneth Tynan, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Kingsley Amis, and Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl.
I was personally only interested in the Neal/Dahl story, which was quite sad, because the others were relatively unknown to me, although I have heard of a few of them. Just a bunch of people giving up their dreams to be a "wife" to an egotist.
My recommendation? Skip it.… (mere)