William's Wife by Gertrude Trevyelan

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight-fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny-pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere in a shopping bag.

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William’s Wife is a study in pathological control. The horror isn’t that which punctures and invades ordinary life; it is ordinary life, lived to its logical conclusion.

Leigh Wilson

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A book which lingers in the mind.

Alice Jolly

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She is a fascinating and important writer who has been unjustly forgotten by history.

Scott Pack

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