{"product_id":"book-at1j","title":"Wife 22","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Helen Fielding’s \u003ci\u003eBridget Jones’s Diary\u003c\/i\u003e and Allison Pearson’s \u003ci\u003eI Don’t Know How She Does It\u003c\/i\u003e comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101). \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.\u003cbr\u003e 61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.\u003cbr\u003e 67. To not want what you don’t have. What you \u003ci\u003ecan’t\u003c\/i\u003e have. What you \u003ci\u003eshouldn’t\u003c\/i\u003e have.\u003cbr\u003e 32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49337530220848,"sku":"BDat1j","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/146420-at1j-Square.jpg?v=1733971134","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-at1j","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}