The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

“That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.”

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true.

It is.

For behind the town’s idyllic facade lies a terrible secret — a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.

The Stepford Wives is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs. It is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.