In this singularly powerful novel, bestselling author Louis Bayard brings Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and two sons out from the shadows of history and creates a vivid and poignant story of secrets, loss, and love. 'Wonderfully researched, beautifully crafted, movingly told, The Wildes is a treasure to read.' -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less and Less Is Lost 'The Wildes is a marvel of tenderness, irony, heartbreak, and reclamation that demonstrates why Bayard is among the most essential-and most entertaining-interrogators of the past.' -Anthony Marra, author of Mercury Pictures Presents and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his family have retreated to the idyllic Norfolk countryside for a holiday. His wife, Constance, has every reason to be happy: two beautiful sons, her own work as an advocate for feminist causes, and a delightfully charming and affectionate husband and father to her children, who also happens to be the