Phoenix Distribution World's Wife, The

<p><meta charset="UTF-8" />This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.</p> <p><i>Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.</i><br /> <i>The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.</i></p> <p>Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from the adoring Queen Kong to the long-suffering wife of the Devil himself, each one steps from her counterpart's shadow to tell her side of the story in this irresistible collection.</p> <p>Original, subversive, full of imagination and quicksilver wit,&nbsp;<i>The World's Wife&nbsp;</i>is Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at her beguiling best.</p>