Praise for Wendy’s Books

From Booksellers

“Walker’s first novel is a treat. It’s well written and features great characters, lots of humor, and dead-on analysis of friendship, marriage, and motherhood.”   -Library Journal

“Social Lives is brilliant, clever and adept writing about upscale, post-recession culture.”    -Burgundy Books, East Haddam, CT

“Social Lives is outstanding. I intent, as an independent bookseller, to let my customers know of tis merit.”  -Creekside Books and Coffee, Skaneateles, NY

“Social Lives deals with sober issues for women in the 21st century. A terrific book group read with much to question and deliberate.”                                                                -Elm Street Books, New Canaan, CT

From Authors

“A brilliantly clever and accurate study in domestic discontentment. Acutely well-observed and suspenseful, it’s a stunning reflection of life in an affluent American suburb, where the women seem to have everything…except happiness. A GREAT READ.”  -Jane Green, best-selling author 

“Wendy Walker’s provocative insight into the minds and hearts of her characters’ discontent is alternately tender and shocking. Proving that money can never fill the empty places of the soul, Social Lives explores the suburban world of material excess with heartbreaking accuracy.” – Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of Driftwood Summer

“In Social Lives, Wendy Walker vividly reveals how the world of money and privilege affects the women who inhabit it, bringing to light the family dynamics it corrupts, the glittering cages it creates, and, most poignantly, the lengths some will go to keep it in their grasp.  A pitch-perfect novel for our times.”                           - Liz Lange, Founder of Liz Lange Maternity

“A cleverly woven, sexy debut that is a fascinating peek inside the gilded cages of suburban matrimony…A TRUE PAGE-TURNER TREAT.”
-Jill Kargman, Author of Momzillas and co-author of The Right Address and Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

“A fascinating read. Wendy Walker delivers a blistering dissection of modern suburban marriage. I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN.”
-Danielle Ganek, Author of Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him

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From Readers

“Smart, sexy, by far the best book in its genre.”

“A fast-moving, engaging peek at mid-life in the suburbs…painfully accurate.”

“You sit anxiously turning the pages, often laughing or shrieking…Wendy’s crisp writing style is a treat to read.”

“This book is for every woman!”

“This is really a fun and heartwarming read.”

“Could be an expose on any four marriages…I laughed and I cried…and I was inspired.”

“Wendy has managed to capture many of the struggles all moms feel in a book that is a great summer read. I definitely stayed up late wondering what was next.”

“A candid and accurate portrayal of the lives of real women today. Four Wives exposes these universal truths with a tautly written and compelling story.”

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