Book Notes: Alice Feeney’s My Husband’s Wife

My friends, if you are into the mystery / mommy lit genre, you need to be reading Alice Feeney. She’s the best on the market right now. Her new novel My Husband’s Wife is excellent. There are surprises on every page. The novel is very well-plotted and hammers home the idea that there’s nothing more important than family. Don’t be a stupid workaholic. Don’t cheat. Don’t be a prima donna who’s jumping from bed to bed in search of excitement. Go home and be with your family, the novel says. Hold your child close and thank heavens that you have a child.

Feeney writes a lot about the children scarcity. This is a common thread among her books but My Husband’s Wife is her best. It’s really a perfectly plotted mystery. Scorned wives, betrayals, a shady tech company that promises to predict the date of your death. Massive amounts of enjoyment.

9 thoughts on “Book Notes: Alice Feeney’s My Husband’s Wife

  1. OT, but good news:

    In a move that is probably totally coincidental, within a week of the first successful lawsuit against doctors for a trans surgery on a minor… both the AMA and the ASPS (plastic surgeons’ professional association) have come out with public statements advocating restrictions on gender surgery for minors.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/health/gender-surgery-minors-ama.html

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/02/03/plastic-surgeons-youth-gender-surgeries-guidance/

    -ethyl

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      1. It’s huge, because when the professional org. changes its guidelines, the hospitals and docs tend to fall in line very quickly: when you go *against* AMA standards of care, that leaves you more open to lawsuits, and you can have your license revoked. There’s a lot that’s bad about that: lawsuit in the works right now that includes a doctor who had his license revoked because he was giving too many vaccine exemptions and *doing research* to try to find out what the magic determining factors are between kids who get adverse effects from routine shots and kids who don’t (important work!), for example. But sometimes it works for the good of the public.

        that lawsuit:

        https://rickjaffeesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/complaint2.pdf

        I hate that all such legal actions seem to take SO LONG to get any kind of ruling.

        -ethyl

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    1. I love it when they go triumphantly “if you want no abortions, you need men to be responsible for their children financially and morally.” Well, ok, then. We’ve only wanted exactly that this entire time but thanks for finally figuring it out, you dumb fucks.

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      1. Oh, c’mon, give the poor ignorant fools a few points for trying. They probably sprained some neurons getting there 😀

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      2. Oh darn, what next!?!? An astounded feminist historian will finally notice that identifying the father and holding him responsible for the mother and children was actually the primary purpose of the patriarchy — thousands of years ago ;-D

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  2. Hadn’t heard of Alice Feeney or mommy lit but this was a really good old-fashioned page turner. Maybe it had one or two plot twists too many? It got a bit mechanical. I’ll definitely read more Feeney. Thanks for the rec!

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