BOOKS
Hardcover, 304 pages
Touchstone Books
2010
The Husbands and Wives Club
A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group
IN THE BLOGS
"For her new book, The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group (Touchstone), ELLE magazine senior editor Laurie Abraham spent more than a year following five couples as they attempted to work through their relationship troubles. The book, which originated as a New York Times article, employs psychology, literature and science to interpret the marriages. The unions alternately prove dysfunctional and surprisingly strong."
— The Sisterhood (read the review)
"This book reads like a novel... You’ll find yourself racing through the final chapters to find out how each couple turned out. No plot spoilers here (who knew that a book on marital therapy could even be subject to those?); we will just say that there’s more than one way to a happy ending."
— Em & Lo (April 15, 2010. Read the truncated review at EmAndLo.com; read the full review at The Sundance Channel)
"The essence of journalism is going to where the story is, and Abraham figured out a way to get there. But I immediately wondered: How did she manage to sit in on a couples therapy group for a year, a process I’d have thought the couples would consider no one’s business but their own? And how did she sit there for a year taking notes and not distort the therapy? She’s a reporter and I’m a reporter so my third thought was simply, well she got her story and more power to her."
— Michael Miner, Chicago Reader (April 6, 2010. Read the full review)
"The often shocking honesty with which Laurie writes and quotes reached a part of me that was beyond boredom or fleeting entertainment — I started to care about these couples and to struggle with the issues that were hurting their marriages."
—SimonSaysBlog (March 2, 2010. Read the full review)