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Bookmark or Share- A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick - GoodreadsRalph Truitt places an ad for a "reliable wife" in the classifieds and Catherine Land answers. He speaks to her through letters and she sends a picture and he in turn sends her a train ticket to come live with him as his wife.
- A Reliable Wife Summary | SuperSummaryRobert Goolrick’s 2009 novel, A Reliable Wife, is a tense psycho-sexual drama that focuses on the deep passions that lurk inside seemingly average people. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel explores an arranged marriage where no one is who they seem to be and where murder, betrayal, violence, and revenge lurk at the bottom of ...
- A Reliable Wife - Historical Novel SocietyRalph Truitt and Catherine Land meet at a train station in rural Wisconsin in 1907. Ralph’s ad for a reliable wife has brought them together. They’re both looking to make a change in their life, but it may be more than just a simple marriage. She hungers for more in life, with money and social standing utmost in her sights.
- A Reliable Wife - ReadingGroupGuides.comUpon reading the opening chapters of Robert Goolrick’s debut novel, A RELIABLE WIFE, you might for a moment think that you’ve read this one before. It’s 1907, and a wealthy Wisconsin widower, Ralph Truitt, is waiting at the local train station for his mail-order bride to arrive by rail from Chicago.
- A Reliable Wife: Goolrick, Robert: 9781565125964: Amazon.com: BooksWhen Catherine Land, who's survived a traumatic early life by using her wits and sexuality as weapons, happens on a newspaper ad from a well-to-do businessman in need of a "reliable wife," she invents a plan to benefit from his riches and his need.
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