To Be a Virtuous Wife, According to the Manual

The Good Wife

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

Dolores marries a veteran in 1958 Ohio and follows her mother's Good Wife's Guide to the letter, and finds the book forbids nothing about her pleasure.

Tropes & themes: female lead · romantic comedy · small-town · historical · in-law conflict · period drama · steamy

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1: Page Forty-One (free)
2. Chapter 2: Nothing Forbidden (free)
3. Chapter 3: Dinner Is at Six (free)
4. Chapter 4: A Casserole and a Warning (free with an account)
5. Chapter 5: Let Him Talk First (free with an account)
6. Chapter 6: Sunday Dinner with Mother (free with an account)
7. Chapter 7: A Little Gay (free with an account)
8. Chapter 8: The Plant Manager's Table (free with an account)
9. Chapter 9: Three in the Morning (free with an account)
10. Chapter 10: Stay (free with an account)
11. Chapter 11: The Husband's Copy (free with an account)
12. Chapter 12: Take an Interest (free with an account)
13. Chapter 13: The Inspection Tea (locked)
14. Chapter 14: Mother's Margins (locked)
15. Chapter 15: Foreman's Wife (locked)
16. Chapter 16: Mother in the Next Room (locked)
17. Chapter 17: The Legion Dance (locked)
18. Chapter 18: Snowed In (locked)
19. Chapter 19: The Good Husband's Guide (locked)
20. Chapter 20: A Hard Day in February (locked)
21. Chapter 21: Marlene Tries Page Forty-One (locked)
22. Chapter 22: The Telephone Company (locked)
23. Chapter 23: Four Days Late (locked)
24. Chapter 24: My Own Margin (locked)

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