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“The Secret Wife by Mark Lamprell ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.In 1961, on the day that Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to rocket into outer space, Edith Devine moves into her brand-new suburban home—and meets her new neighbour, Frankie Heyman. Frankie is a glamorous, sophisticated foil to the quiet, clever Edith, and the two housewives become firm friends.Then, when Frankie’s domineering husband Ralph refuses to let her get a job, Edith hatches a plan to keep her friend’s household running while Frankie secretly goes out to work—and so Edith becomes Frankie’s secret wife. As Frankie builds a business empire, Edith runs both their homes: dusting, cleaning and cooking her way through the sexual revolution, the summer of love and the second wave of feminism. Throughout the 1960s, the world’s great events seem to be mirrored in the lives of two women—until the day in 1969 when the first humans step out onto the surface of the moon, and Frankie and Edith face a calamitous reckoning.

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The story takes place over ten years, following Edith as she helps Frankie create a career away from her domineering and patriarchal husband. I believe this takes place in Sydney but we aren’t really given much information since nearly the entire book takes place inside Edith or Frankie’s house. There aren’t a lot of 1960s references other than Edith constantly making note of the news and how it relates to her own life. Because of this, the book feels both claustrophobic and mundane, with much of the book being about Edith cleaning things. The other half of the book is Edith reacting (rarely acting) and then internally monologuing about it.Frankie is probably the most interesting character but we learn preciously little about her since Edith is too shy and submissive to really push for information. Edith’s entire world is enabling Frankie so Frankie’s huge and sudden success in creating her own business is rather unbelievable. Edith is almost never around any of it – her world is cleaning and cooking two houses and dealing with her late teen daughters’ and their embracing of 1960s idealism.