Wendy Moore is a freelance journalist and author. Her first book, THE KNIFE MAN, won the Medical Journalists' Association Consumer Book Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for both Saltire and the Marsh Biography Awards. Her second book, WEDLOCK, has been highly acclaimed in reviews and was chosen as one of the ten titles in the Channel 4 TV Book Club. HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE was published to rapturous reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wendy Moore has written before about brutal oddball Georgians, but what is so intriguing about this rollicking and well-researched book is just how confoundedly, detestably hypocritical her central character is ...This is a sordid tale, splendidly told - SUNDAY TIMES on HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFEMoore has again found an excruciatingly gruesome and fascinating story. But instead of turning these portraits into misery biographies, she weaves them into the broader context of the time ... In HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE, she investigates education, liberty and the role of women. It is pleasing to see a writer bringing together painstaking research with gripping storytelling. I can't wait for her next book - GUARDIAN on HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFEThis is the best kind of non-fiction, the kind that reads like a novel and yet couldn't be made up - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY on HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT WIFE
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