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“I read Virginia’s novel in one sitting and was so captured by it I knew I had to make it and play Mrs. March. As a character, she is fascinating, complex, and deeply human and I can’t wait to sink my teeth into her.” —Elisabeth Moss

A Jenny Lawson "Fantastic Strangeling Book Club" Selection

Oprah Daily • Best of the Month

USA Today • Books Not to Miss

Who is Mrs. March?

George March’s latest novel is a smash. No one could be prouder than his dutiful wife, Mrs. March, who revels in his accolades. A careful creature of routine and decorum, she lives a precariously controlled existence on the Upper East Side until one morning, when the shopkeeper of her favorite patisserie suggests that her husband’s latest protagonist—a detestable character named Johanna—is based on Mrs. March herself. Clutching her ostrich leather pocketbook and mint-colored gloves, she flees the shop. What could have merited this humiliation?

That one casual remark robs Mrs. March of the belief that she knew everything about her husband—and herself—thus sending her on an increasingly paranoid journey that begins within the pages of a book. While snooping in George’s office, Mrs. March finds a newspaper clipping about a missing woman. Did George have anything to do with her disappearance? He’s been going on a lot of “hunting trips” up north with his editor lately, leaving Mrs. March all alone at night with her tormented thoughts, and the cockroaches that have suddenly started to appear, and strange breathing noises . . . As she begins to decode her husband’s secrets, her deafening anxiety and fierce determination threaten everyone in her wake—including her stoic housekeeper, Martha, and her unobtrusive son, Jonathan, whom she loves so profoundly, when she remembers to love him at all.

Combining a Hitchcockian sensibility with wickedly dark humor, Virginia Feito, a brilliantly talented and, at times, mischievous newcomer, offers a razor-sharp exploration of the fragility of identity. A mesmerizing novel of psychological suspense and casebook insecurity turned full-blown neurosis, Mrs. March will have you second-guessing your own seemingly familiar reflection in the mirror.

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mystery, thriller, new york, literary, books, wife, husband

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"Essential reading for the social media era.... [A] brilliant debut novel.... A brilliantly tense psychological study from a writer who keeps pace with the grandees she invokes – Du Maurier, for one.... It’s also a fine addition to the current wave of feminist-inflected horror.... But what makes Mrs March most unsettling of all is that Feito’s meticulous construction of a collapsing mental world is underpinned by piercing insight into “normal” minds. The chilly paranoia that Mrs March experiences, the belief that everyone is judging her as she is judging them, the appalling prospect that she is known not on her own terms, but as someone else has portrayed her – all these are the regular nightmares of the regular status-hungry person in the social media hall of mirrors.... Feito has done that most horrible, wonderful and truly novelistic of things: she has seen right through Mrs March and into the shameful, petty, maggotty secrets that everybody carries."
― Sarah Ditum, The Guardian

"Mrs. March’s flights of fantasy... progress to psychotic episodes and flashbacks to her stoic upbringing; even readers will begin to question what is real and what is imagined."
― Edward Goldberg, Library Journal

"Mrs. March is window-dressed to perfection as a psychological thriller-cum-cosmopolitan grotesque.... [Mrs. March] could be describing Feito's novel when she refers to the life of the prostitute in George's book as ‘something so ugly described so beautifully."
― Nell Beram, Shelf Awareness

"[An] elegantly written, unflinchingly observed debut."
― Publishers Weekly

"Mrs. March is just the Madame Bovary-meets-Patricia Highsmith feminist psychoanalytic comedy-of-manners thriller that I didn't know I so desperately needed. I almost destroyed my life by staying up so late reading. I am lucky my house is still standing."
― Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot

"As literary as it is pulpy, Mrs. March straddles the line between psychological thriller and social satire ― think HBO’s The Undoing or The Talented Mr. Ripley. Like those blockbuster titles, Mrs. March portrays a rarefied world as hellish Grand Guignol. The pleasure of the book is in watching all that psychotic menace come out into the open, and in trying to figure how much of it is actually real. Mrs. March might think she sees a woman across the street drenched in blood―but what if she’s simply had too much wine? She might believe the figures in a painting have turned their backs on her―but what if she’s just crazy?.... Indeed, for all its gleeful nastiness, Mrs. March is very much a comedy of manners―one where every Vicuna scarf and monogrammed napkin signifies something greater than itself."
― Harrison Hill, Vogue

"I delighted in every page of this clever, twisted debut.... Feito’s fiendish narrator presents Mrs. March to readers like a fine wine, uncorked, zooming in and out of Mrs. March’s paranoia as her psyche unravels. This book is an intoxicating experience."
― Carole E. Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"[Feito] manages to capture this world entirely, while simultaneously ratcheting up the tension caused by Mrs. March’s increasingly fractured psyche, in a way that recalls novels by Patricia Highsmith and Margaret Millar. And like these predecessors, Feito explores issues of autonomy, insecurity and madness, all wrapped up in the domestic life of a housewife whose whole being has been shaped and molded by how she believes others view her. Feito works hard to make sure readers know that there is something amiss in this character’s fragile mind.... The final pages are shocking... readers may find themselves tempted to return to the beginning in order to understand just what Feito has so convincingly managed to achieve within her accomplished debut."
― Christine Mangan, New York Times Book Review

"[A] vicious, gorgeous thriller.... A little bit Hitchcock, a little bit Patricia Highsmith, a little bit “The Yellow Wallpaper”.... There’s a relentless build to this book, a gnawing dread that sets in early and never quite lets up. And between Feito’s silver-polish sentences and her eerie psychological acumen, you don’t want it to."
― Constance Grady, Vox

"Mrs. March is painfully aware of [genre] tropes and leans into them so far as to subvert them.... By initially setting up Mrs. March as a domestic thriller that comments on the relegation of women to the home and the elevation of men’s careers and creative pursuits, the perfect foundation is laid for Mrs. March to escape all of that and fantasize―and materialize―that she’s in her own crime novel, taking the dead girl muse trope into her own hands.... Masterful."
― Scarlett Harris, Observer

"Feito’s noirish debut novel left me rapt, gleefully ambivalent about her eponymous protagonist: did I like her? Did I find her funny? Did I want to hug her? Was I bit a scared of her? Did I relate to her? To all of the above: yes.... This is an elegant, claustrophobic psychological thriller that bears the influence of a handful of brilliant writers, from Shirley Jackson to Daphne du Maurier to Patricia Highsmith, but feels incredibly original. The film is bound to be gorgeous – the Hitchcockian foreboding and stifling, velvety interiors feel made for the screen – but read the book first. Mrs March is the most beguiling protagonist I’ve encountered in a long time; I can’t remember when I was last so excited about a new voice in fiction."
― Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard

"This crisp, delicious portrait of a woman coming apart is a brutal, darkly funny, sharp blade of a book. I loved it."
― Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You

"Feito locks the reader up inside the fracturing psyche of a woman of privilege ... through excruciatingly precise renderings of grotesque delusions... Feito masterfully orchestrates the bewildering horrors of Mrs. March’s breakdown... Feito's bravura gothic thriller brilliantly exposes monstrous consequences of covert neglect and cruelty."
― Donna Seaman, Booklist

"In a horror-laced psychological drama, the wife of a bestselling New York novelist learns his latest protagonist is modeled on her . . . Abandoning her purchases, [Mrs. March] bolts from the store, never to return, and immediately confronts an advertisement featuring a woman smiling knowingly under the words 'SHE HAD NO IDEA.' Even the billboards know! This is just one of innumerable creepy details that speed Mrs. March's descent into a spiraling vortex of psychosis . . . Feito is Spanish and lives in Madrid, but somehow she is the love child of Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson. On her way to the screen played by Elisabeth Moss, Mrs. March is absolutely right―everyone is talking about her."
― Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Like Mrs. March herself, I spent most of Virginia Feito’s trippy novel wondering, What the devil is going on? When she figured it out, I was haunted for days."
― Helen Ellis, author of American Housewife

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A Jenny Lawson "Fantastic Strangeling Book Club" Selection
Oprah Daily • Best of the Month
USA Today • Books Not to Miss

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08L6YMQGC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Liveright (August 10, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 10, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1945 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1324091967

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A native of Spain, Virginia Feito was raised in Madrid and Paris, and studied English and drama at Queen Mary University of London. She lives in Madrid, where she writes her fiction in English.

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Eun

Decent into madness

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2023

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What a great read. It’s a wild ride. Mrs. March is married to author George March who has a successful book Johanna.
Her erratic behavior is a descent into madness. We watch as she slowly begins to lose it. All the signs are there from her imaginary friend Kiki to the alluded to rape in Capiz not to mention the distant mother, who pitted her against her sister.

Her relationship with her husband, her son, Jonathan, and her housekeeper Martha is trained, and I have all what you would term is loving. Throughout the book, she feels inferior and removed from social situations.

It might be because I read quite a bit, but I figured out Georgia’s angle almost from the beginning.

Elisabeth Moss and her production company have purchased movie rights to this book. It’s a pity Alfred Hitchcock, or his screenwriter. Lehman are the round to add that special touch. One can only imagine what he would make of this.

Are the holiday gatherings should be familiar to a lot of us with dysfunctional families. Virginia Feito has done a magnificent job of bringing Mrs. March to life.

Throughout the book, the main character was referred to as Mrs. March. She took such offense at the character in her husbands book Johanna. I was shocked to see the end of the book her name was Agatha.

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Marina Heck

Very bizarre Hitchcockian Story.

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2021

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Différent, bizarre but very well written and new.
I enjoyed it

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2022

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Another book club choice. I didn’t read a synopsis of it before starting to read it because I thought it might be interesting to really “discover” a book. After the first chapter, I was convinced that Mrs. March was an unlikeable character but I still had hope that somehow over the course of the book I’d be proven wrong.

I don’t do spoilers so I won’t say what happens. This book moves so slowly, so inexorably to what you know is going to be a bad end, if I wrote too much about the plot it would spoil what little there is of the book to discover; in my opinion, if you knew the plot you wouldn’t want to read the book.

If you enjoy a good thriller, well, this is a so-so thriller. I felt depressed and claustrophobic and wanted desperately to be rid of Mrs. March—the character AND the book. Maybe that’s the mark of a good writer, someone who through their characterization gets inside of you, makes YOU feel crazy. When I first began reading it, I thought of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. But this is no Mrs Dalloway and Feito is no Virginia Woolf. I finished the book but by the end I was feeling as crazy as Mrs March is.

I really hope my book club improves its selections.

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Holly La Pat

Highly praised, but it missed for me

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2023

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This was a frustrating read for me. We realize very quickly that Mrs. March has issues. The first few chapters establish that she's insecure, self-conscious and obsessed with appearances. After a while it's apparent that she's beyond merely neurotic. But is she flat-out crazy ... or is her husband really a murderer, as she begins to suspect?

Based on the reviews, critics and prominent readers have found this a very effective character study. For me, it was like hearing a single note on a piano hit again and again, punctuated by the occasional plot development, then a different note hit again and again. By the halfway point I was tempted to bail. But there are just enough events, interspersed between all the examples of her craziness, to sustain interest.

Throughout the book, the protagonist is referred to only as Mrs. March -- even in flashbacks to her childhood. She's called by her first name only at the very end, and WHY wasn't really apparent to me. If the name itself was supposed to be a big revelation, I didn't get it. I think she's supposed to have had a great moment of self-realization? Based on those cheers from critics, I must be missing SOMETHING.

At any rate, I found this highly-lauded novel pretty tedious, so I guess its literary merit was lost on me. Maybe I'm the one who's crazy?

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Rita F.

Too weird

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024

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This book was so disappointing- the only reason I kept reading it was to discover the point. Turns out there was none. Basically just an ugly story focused on a paranoid and delusional character

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2022

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If you ever wondered what it might feel like to live inside the head of a crazy person, Mrs. March will have plenty of appeal. This is a strange, unusual novel that reads like some of Patricia Highsmith's work. It is a bit too odd for me to give it five stars and I'm a Highsmith fan. Cleverly written but might not be everyone's cup of tea.

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Bradley

Oddly fascinating would buy again

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022

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Great story translated from Spanish. A lot of translation errors but this author deserves a read. Be ready to travel the wormhole journey in her mind. Next books hope to feel me a better proof reader after translation. Author is very talented, loved it .

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Sascha Pearl

More psychological than triller

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2024

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Mrs March is about the wife of an author, George March. She is told that the main character of George’s new bestseller is based on her. Billed as a psychological thriller, I expected the book to be about the parallels between the book and Mrs March. It wasn’t. And I found the book to be more psychological than thriller.

Mrs March is about a woman’s descent into madness. It’s written in the 3rd person, entirely from Mrs March’s point of view. As a result, the reader is never quite sure what is reality. In addition, I did not find Mrs March likeable at all. And because of the POV, I wished somethings were explained, but weren’t.

Despite me not loving it, it was a quick read with good writing. I might have liked it more if it was promoted differently.

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Vlad Thelad

Psychological suspense should have more grip

Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2021

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I read the premise that kick-starts this novel: someone mentions to the wife of a celebrated author that his latest novel’s main character is based on her, triggering an introspective reaction that turns her life upside down. I found it intriguing enough, and added the book to my reading list. If you are into psychological suspense, this might well be for you. For me, not essentially a fan, much less a connoisseur of the genre, reading it became a test on the abilities of the writer to keep me engaged, and to her credit she mostly succeeded. However, we are not talking of Hitchcockian grip here. I will not go as far as extrapolating my own perception into a harsh critique, as perhaps I expected too much given the widespread praises Ms. Feito has received for this, her first, novel.

Grumpy Granny

Depressing read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2024

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Part way through

Cleto

Aburrido por repetitivo.

Reviewed in Spain on March 6, 2023

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No me gustó. Me pareció lento. La trama del libro, se repite una y otra vez. No avanza. Sin ningún interés.

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An interesting novel with a predictable end

Reviewed in Italy on September 16, 2021

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Very well written, the novel enthalles the reader from the very beginning. Going forward, the epilogue becomes more and more predictable and the enthrallment gradually fades. The main character, Mrs March, is at the epicenter of the narrative, while other characters are mainly on the side and less investigated upon. The book doesn't have a clear "genre" as it is suspended between a psychological thriller and an "intimate" novel. The parallel with Wolf's Mrs Dalloway is clear, but, alas, unfavourable. Despite these shortcomings I suggest reading it, as the narrative tension stays high from beginning to end.

ferhannah

Unfortunately terrible

Reviewed in Canada on November 25, 2022

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One star for the PR team that promoted this book and the second for the effort this young author invested on her fist novel. The ending is predictable and Mrs. March’s paranoia absolutely exhausting.

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