The Ambassador's Wife

The Ambassador's WifeBy: Jennifer Steil From a real life ambassador's wife and the acclaimed author of Exile Music comes a harrowing novel about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East and the heartbreaking choices she and her husband each must make in the hope of being reunited. When bohemian artist Miranda meets British ambassador Finn in the ancient stone streets of an Islamic city, the course of her life alters in extraordinary ways. Their marriage

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which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews