A review by carolineroche
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood

5.0

I absolutely loved this book! The title is wonderfully ambiguous, as it tells the story of all four of Hemingway's wives, in four sections, yet the title encompasses all four Mrs Hemingways. I had no idea until I read the book about his personal life, and now I know more than I wanted to! Naomi Wood's prose is worthy of the master himself, you can feel the heat shimmering off the page in the scenes with the first Mrs Hemingway in Antibes. And the scenes where the next Mrs Hemingway is lined up is beautifully enacted, from both points of view, at the beginning and end of the chapters, giving different slants on the story. This is a great book to read and enjoy.