The Ambassador's Wife

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The Ambassador's Wife
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First edition
Author Jennifer Steil
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction novel
PublishedJuly 28, 2015
Publisher Doubleday
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book, audiobook
Pages400 pp.
ISBN 0385539029
Preceded by The Woman Who Fell From The Sky  

The Ambassador's Wife is a 2015 novel by American author Jennifer Steil about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East. [1] [2] The story was inspired by the author's personal experiences as the wife of the British Ambassador to Yemen.

The book received the 2013 Best Novel award in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. [3]

On August 18, 2015, the Mark Gordon Company announced that Anne Hathaway would star in a limited TV series adaptation of the novel.

References

  1. "The Ambassador's Wife". Booklist . August 13, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  2. "The Ambassador's Wife by Jennifer Steil". Publishers Weekly . August 3, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  3. "2013 Winners, Runners-Up, and Finalists". The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. 2013. Archived from the original on January 16, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2015.