The Washington Post – Donna Rifkind

The Paris Wife is a richer and more provocative book than many reviewers have acknowledged. What they call cliches are simply conventions that all historical novels share…And The Paris Wife is a more ambitious effort than just a Hallmark version of Americans in Paris. It's an imaginative homage to Hadley Richardson Hemingway, whose quiet support helped her young husband become a writer, and it gives readers a chance to see the person Hemingway aspired to be before fame turned him into something else.