William’s Wife Shalash but also many lesser known

but also many lesser known voices

rivers and villages

it follows two people - a man and a woman - and their many attempts to hook up together

and privileged

William’s Wife Shalash but also many lesser knownWhen Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere