Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
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| Author | Christina Stead |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1976 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 308pp |
| ISBN | 039440517X |
| Preceded by | The Little Hotel |
| Followed by | I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist |
Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) (1976) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead.
The novel follows the life of Eleanor Herbert Brent, a recent university graduate, living in London and engaged to be married. Over the next few years she breaks her engagement, embarks on affair with a man she meets on a boat, leaves him, becomes engaged again, and then breaks off that engagement as well. She finally marries and has children but finds herself alone when her husband departs. She finds some success on the fringes of the literary world yet never really comes to know herself.