“It is a universal truth that one person’s happiness is often purchased at the expense of another.” The theme of a woman’s escape - from loneliness, life and family problems - is very popular in English and American literature. What can the wife of a successful and ambitious politician do when, after twenty years of marriage, she feels lonely and empty? Divorce? Find new love? Go to Tuscany! Elisabeth Bushan is little known in Russia. In 2005, the Amphora publishing house (St. Petersburg) published another of her books, “The Revenge of a Middle-Aged Woman,” and in an amateur translation there is its sequel, “The Second Wife.” Based on the proposed novel, “The Good Wife,” in 2009, the CBS television company produced a series of the same name, which received many awards in the United States, including 5 Emmys and the 2014 Television Critics Association Award (starring Julianna Margulies, directed by Robert and Michelle King ).