The Engineer's Wife

By: Tracey Enerson Wood

Narrated by: Libby McKnight

She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow.

Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally - she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband, Wash, asks the unthinkable: Give up her dreams to make his possible.

Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold and her life transformed when Wash, the chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is injured on the job. Untrained for the task, but under his guidance, she assumes his role, despite stern resistance and overwhelming obstacles. Lines blur as Wash's vision becomes her own, and when he is unable to return to the job, Emily is consumed by it. But as the project takes shape under Emily's direction, she wonders whose legacy she is building - hers or her husband's. As the monument rises, Emily's marriage, principles, and identity threaten to collapse. When the bridge finally stands finished, will she recognize the woman who built it?

Based on the true story of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Engineer's Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scale that takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette riots, the halls of Manhattan's elite, and the heady, freewheeling temptations of P.T. Barnum. It's the story of a husband and wife determined to build something that lasts - even at the risk of losing each other.

©2020 Tracey Enerson Wood (P)2020 Recorded Books

really good book

the book is true fiction storyline was really good but I love the factual parts the book and the author did keep you entertained through the whole thing enjoyed it actually tremendously would recommend this book

Poor narration

This narrator should not get another job narrating. She miss pronounced so many words… Emphasize instead of empathize, secrete instead of secret, lopped instead of loped. Her errors and and apparent unfamiliarity with common vocabulary Was very distracting. Because she did not seem to know what the words meant her intonations and rhythms did not deliver a smooth reading.
I wonder if near rations are edited and listened to before they are produced? It was distracting and disappointing.

Building the Brooklyn Bridge

A true story based on Emily Roebling wife of the engineer commissioned to build the Brooklyn Bridge. Due to Illness from the job she is thrown into to getting the feat done- her husband knows she can do it.
I enjoyed the character development and all the historical details. I will never go over the Brooklyn Bridge without thinking of the great sacrifices made to get it completed. The author really made you feel as if you were there This novel is also about a very strong woman and all she had to endure to assist her husband to get the almost impossible done. I thought the performance of the narrator was fantastic !

A women’s role beyond social.limitations

Interesting overview of efforts to build the Brooklyn Bridge and Washington Roebling’s major contributions to its construction. Also, provides picture of the legal and social limitations faced by women in the post Civil War Era

Excellent book well done

Yes this book was goodWith lots of historical information I must read for anybody who enjoys a story along with history learned a lot and enjoyed it very much