Author(s): Jennifer Haigh

Fiction.

Over a span of twenty five years, three women marry the same man - a charismatic opportunist named Ken Kimble. Each Mrs Kimble offers a mesmerising look at how three very different women became accomplices in their own deception.

The first, Birdie, is left in deprived conditions and struggles to hold herself and their children together in the months following Kimble's desertion; the second, Joan, a lonely heiress recovering from personal tragedy, sees in Ken Kimble her last chance at happiness and defies her family and friends to marry him; and the third, Dinah, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age, tries to find the strength to survive him.

Beautifully written, stunningly original, this emotionally compelling novel is a meditation on women, marriage and the illusions upon which it is based.