June 30, 2022
The Good Wife of Bath by Karen Brooks
Adapted from Chaucer's Wife of Bath tale in the Canterbury Tales. The author imagines Eleanor's life (called Alisoun in the Canterbury Tales, but the name change is part of the story) with her five husbands.
One of the current trends in fiction that is popular right now is retelling stories and fairy tales. I didn't love this as much as I wanted to or as much as other readers did, maybe because I studied Chaucer in graduate school and I know a lot about the Wife of Bath's tale. If you don't know the Canterbury Tales, you'll like it just fine. Disappointing.
One of the many images of the Wife of Bath
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