by Brian Moore · Vergara Editor S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9789501510102
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«La mujer del médico» is the fiction novel by Brian Moore, published by Vergara Editor S.A. in hardback (256 pages, in Spanish).
On the French Riviera, Sheila Redden, a doctor's wife, waits for her husband and falls in love with an American ten years her junior. The romance drives her to question her marriage and her identity, in a story about love, desire and personal change.
Originally published as The Doctor's Wife in 1976, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; the Spanish edition is from 1977.
For readers of literary fiction and intimate novels about marriage and identity.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
