The Good Husband

The author of A Mother and Two Daughters creates a superbly drawn portrait of two marriages and four unforgettable characters in the throes of life and death. Magda Danvers is the magnificent central character who, from her death bed, transforms and influences all those around her - until her incandescent last days, when the secret of Magda's "good marriage" is revealed for the first and last time. 468 pages.