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Author Naomi Wood spent three and a half years crafting her novel on the four wives of Ernest Hemingway. Told in four parts from the perspectives of his wives Hadley, Fife, Martha and Mary, "Mrs. Hemingway" is based on real love letters and telegrams from Ernest.  

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, Wood said she was surprised by the contents of the letters to his wives.

"To all four of them, they were full of baby-talk, just treacly with phrases like, 'Hi my little waxen kitten, from your little feather dog,' and I just found it so interesting that he was able to be like this with his wives and yet such an uber-masculine figure for the rest of the time," she said.

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Told in four parts from the perspectives of his wives Hadley, Fife, Martha and Mary, "Mrs. Hemingway" is based on real love letters and telegrams from Ernest Hemingway.

Naomi Wood on the lives of Hemingway's wives

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