A couple of the rules for being a Hunting Hills Wife:
* Eat voraciously in social occasions. Leave everyone wondering how you keep your teenage figure when little do they know that you'll be living on green tea, celery and alkaline water for days afterward.
* Do try and keep your options open in the family income department. If your husband appears headed for a demotion, if he is an alcoholic, drug addict or, worse, lacking in capitalistic enthusiasm, it is acceptable to search for other breadwinners. In fact, it's expected.
* Never admit to a fellow wife that you just slept with her husband.
PLOT: This novel is set in the sheltered suburbs of Hunting Hills. Women give up their careers, when they marry rich men, to be socialite wives; wives who have too much money and not enough to do! It is accepted that partners may have affairs, but these are conducted in secret.
Socialite Marti Denton never realised that she was in love with John Harding, until he returned home from an overseas trip... married! Marti hatches a plan to steal John away from his new and socially awkward wife Claire.
Soon scandals such as lesbian affairs, secret love trysts and embezzlement rock Hunting Hills. The fortunate wives are petrified that their private lives will be splashed all over the front page of the newspapers.
REVIEW: I am fast becoming a huge fan of Strohmeyer. Sometimes it can be a bit hit-and-miss when you try a new author. I have often read a great book, then been disappointed by the second one I have read by the same author. Not the case with Strohmeyer. 'The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives' reeled me in from the very start. The exclusive gated community of Hunting Hills is portrayed believably, almost reminiscent of a modern day Stepford Wives. There are also elements of the 'Desperate Housewives' series in here. If you are a fan of that program, or of Strohmeyers other books, then this novel will not disappoint!
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