Because every wife deserves a happy ending. Three best friends decide theyre finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. Theyre ready to monetize the mental load stick it to their exes and have a wild ride in the process.Lauren mother of twins wakes up one morning to her Wife Alarm Bells sounding. She sleuths on her husbands phone and stumbles on a dirty secret that explodes her marriage. Madeline has it all--a penthouse apartment a perfect daughter and no-strings-attached romps with handsome men. When she learns that she might lose her child to her ex in England it stirs up a decades-old personal tragedy. Sophie with too much FOMO and never enough money obsesses over her ex-husbands Family 2.0--all while keeping her true desires hidden even from herself. It starts as a joke during a tipsy night out as Lauren Madeline and Sophie rail against everything wives do for free. Lets build an app that monetizes the mental load. And maybe get revenge on our exes in the process? Soon the Wife App is born and before long its the fastest growing start-up in New York City. But then life intervenes. Love intervenes. Ex-husbands intervene. And the consequences are bigger than anything Lauren Madeline or Sophie could have expected. Carolyn Mackler marks her debut into adult fiction with a hilarious rollercoaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms.
