The World's Wife

Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the non-envying Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the traumatized wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit, The World's Wife is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best. 'The nation's favourite living poet' Jeanette Winterson'A joyous, exuberant book of poems about women usually excluded from myth and history'Guardian von Duffy DBE, Carol Ann