Mrs. Hemingway

Named a best book of 2014 by Harper's Bazaar and Stylist Magazine, Mrs. Hemingway , by Naomi Wood, is an intriguing and engaging novel based on Hemingway's relationships with the four women he married.

In the summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, travel from Paris to the south of France. There, they swim, play bridge, and drink gin. But wherever they go, they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife, Hadley's close friend. It turns out she is also Ernest's lover.

Mrs. Hemingway , by Naomi Wood, shows what it was like to love and be loved by the most impetuous and famous author of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary—each of the Mrs. Hemingway sisters—thought their love would last forever; they were all wrong. As Ernest's career takes off, their relationships are marked by passion and betrayal. And each of these extraordinary women will have to ask themselves how far they will go to remain married to the celebrated author.

Spanning from 1920s bohemian Paris to 1960s Cold War America inhabited by members of the Lost Generation, Mrs. Hemingway is a refreshing story of passion, love, and breakups.

The book won the Dylan Thomas and JerwoodFictionUncovered awards .

“So beautifully written and so evocative that I couldn't put it down.” JojoMoyes

“Finally, all the women married to the great American writer get the chance to have their side of the story told. ” GoodHousekeeping

“A fascinating, astutely observed, and beautifully written portrait of the Hemingway women and their charismatic, enigmatic, troubled, and troubled husband. A gem of a book.” Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald