Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

This is the story of three women.

Lisa Taddeo spent eight years and thousands of hours listening to the women whose stories comprise Three Women, even moving to the towns they lived in to better understand their lives. 

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo is an electrifying exploration of desire, shame, and the quiet rebellions of women’s inner lives. Based on nearly a decade of immersive reporting, Taddeo follows the real stories of three women: Lina, a suburban mother trapped in a loveless marriage; Maggie, a young woman seeking justice after an affair with her high school teacher; and Sloane, a confident business owner whose husband encourages her to sleep with other people.

With raw honesty and unflinching prose, Three Women exposes the messy, vulnerable truth about what women want—and what happens when the world tells them they shouldn’t. It’s intimate, provocative, and impossible to look away from—a book that lingers long after the final page.