Was she a giddy sugarplum or calculating shrew? Mozart's wife aroused strong feelings among her contemporaries. Her in-laws loathed her. Mozart's friends, more than forty years after his death, remained eager to gossip about her "failures" as wife to the world's first superstar. Maturing from child to wife to hard-headed widow, Konstanze paid her husband's debts, provided for their children, and relentlessly marketed and mythologized her brilliant husband.
Mozart's letters attest to his affection for Konstanze as well as to their powerful sexual bond. Yet the question remains: Why did she never mark his grave?
"Based on original sources, including family letters and scholarly biographies, Mozart's Wife is a fascinating work of historical fiction, an entertaining and sometimes erotic look at a remarkable woman who earned the lifelong love of one of history's most remarkable men. —Gregory Harris, BookPage
"This is a multifaceted novel which brilliantly joins the nomenclature of both the romantic and historical fiction... I would highly recommend this novel to lovers of music, lovers of history, and just plain lovers."—Knowbetter.com, ebook reviews
"In the tradition of such wonderful novels as Jane Eyre, Little Women, and Gone with the Wind, Juliet Waldron has penned a masterpiece in Mozart's Wife. Although many would wonder what four novels, different in style and period, would have in common — these are the stories that came to my mind as I read Mozart's Wife." —Cass Andre, founder of eBooks Rock!
