The Manual for Good Wives

Lola Jaye’s The Manual for Good Wives is dual narrative historical novel about love, generational trauma, second chances from the critically acclaimed author of The Attic Child.

Everything about Adeline Coppefield is a lie . . .

To the world Mrs Coppefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady wife who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.

Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copperfield name, nor is she an English lady…

Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story. . .

The Manual for Good Wives is a dual narrative historical novel about love, generational trauma, second chances . . . and hope.