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The Ambassador's Wife
First edition
AuthorJennifer Steil
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction novel
PublishedJuly 28, 2015
PublisherDoubleday
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book, audiobook
Pages400 pp.
ISBN0385539029
Preceded byThe Woman Who Fell From The Sky 

The Ambassador's Wife is a novel by American author Jennifer Steil about the kidnapping of an American woman in the Middle East. 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.[1]

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. ^ "2013 Winners, Runners-Up, and Finalists". The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. 2013.