A review by novel_nomad
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

4.0

An absolutely fascinating read, unlike the sensational Lady Audley’s Secret, this novel focused on the emotional education of a young woman. Isabel has dreamily shut herself away in the Romantic novels and fantasies for most of her young life, awaiting her chance to be a tragic heroine in her own story. Accepting the love and marriage of a honest country doctor, she believes that it may finally herald her heroine status. Yet she is introduced to the young squire, Roland, and his beauty and sad poetry fit her every requirement of a true Romantic hero.

Mimicking the idea of Madame Bovary, but ending in a very different manner - and ending that enthralled me to no end.