BOOK: Eleanor Porter has a new book out “The Good Wife” A MALVERN novelist’s lockdown success has led her to publish her second book. Eleanor Porter, who last year published The Wheelwright’s Daughter, has just finished her next instalment, The Good Wife. The book picks up the story of Martha Spicer, heroine of The Wheelwright’s Daughter, after her acquittal from Ludlow Gaol. Her husband Jacob has been given a position in the stables at Hampton Court Castle near Leominster on the estate of Sir Thomas Coningsby. Their future seems settled. Even the village is called Hope. However, when Sir Thomas chooses Jacob to accompany him north Martha discovers she is not so safe as she had thought; and when Jacob does not come home she is thrown on her wits. Is he alive and how can she find him?