She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time. A graduate of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. She is a RITA Award-winner for Best Regency Historical for The Mischief of the Mistletoe. Lauren Willig is the author of several New York Times bestselling works of historical fiction, including The Forgotten Room (co-authored with Karen White and Beatriz Williams), The Ashford Affair, and the Pink Carnation series. Want more GIFs? Take a visual tour through Ellie Alexander's seventh Bakeshop Mystery, Another One Bites the Crust!

Who were her brother and his wife, really?Īnd why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip.īut then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball.Īnnabelle goes missing, presumed drowned.īay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party.īut the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. They have three-year-old twins on whom they dote.Īnd he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria. From the New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, come. He's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family. Read 1,318 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format.Ī scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder-take a visual tour of Lauren Willig's The English Wife!Īnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York.

After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her 'Pink Carnation' series of Napoleonic-set novels.

Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. Lauren Willig is the New York Times bestselling author of nineteen works of historical fiction.

The English Wife by Lauren Willig