Lisa Blaize - teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife - feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a school in a country town. Isolated and far from her metropolitan upbringing, she turns to the one place where she learns she can be uninhibited.
But 'Twitter may be my undoing', Lisa discovers as her one-time private life becomes all too public. Soon she is dealing with an online stalker and her husband's reputation is put at risk, but will she be able to give up her addiction?
From the gossip of the classroom to our obsession with instant communication, Look to Your Wife is witty and brilliantly observed, revealing the pleasures and pains of contemporary life.
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[Dear Headmaster, Please, please, please do something about Lisa] ***(William Collins, 5 April 2018, ebook, 304 pages, copy from publisher via NetGalley voluntarily reviewed)
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Look to Your Life is a very clever and disturbing look at the pitfalls of social media. I sympathised with Lisa even though she brings a lot of what happens on herself by her constant posting. What did she expect would happen when she makes every little detail about her private life public knowledge? I really felt for her husband Edward, put into a difficult position by Lisa Twitter obsession. I liked the way the novel is structured with chapters intercut with Tweets and messages. Look to Your Wife has some comic moments but gradually gets darker and darker as Lisa has to cope with a cyber-stalker and consequences of infidelity.
