The Astronaut Wives
I listened to this novel and I am glad that I did, as there were lots of dates in it and I thought Orlagh Cassidy did an excellent job as the narrator. I never got tired of listening as Ms. Cassidy went through what these women did as astronaut wives but I had a feeling that if I had tried to read this novel, I wouldn’t have finished the novel.
I guess I don’t know what I expected from this novel, afterall these were the wives of the astronauts and not the astronauts themselves. That being so, I found that parts of this novel contained normal everyday events. Sometimes boring, these sections reminded me that although their husbands were now among a selected group of individuals in the limelight, their little ladies were back home waiting for them holding everything together. What happened to these men while they were away, was a different story.
I liked how these women were able to rely on one another in their time of need yet they each were rooting for their husband in the space race. There was competition, everywhere but when they came together, they threw on another mask and life was good.
I met many women in this novel, their lives all seemed to be the same, they watched and they waited for their significant other to return home never knowing when that would be. Their spouses’ job was to be an astronaut and the rest was left up to them. It was an interesting novel and one I highly recommend you listen to.
