The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.

[1] The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision.

[1] Catherine Byrne marries self-proclaimed prophet Muley Moloch and leaves 19th-century England with him and his eight female disciples to search for paradise on earth in the wilds of Australia.

Jeff Doyle in The Canberra Times noted: "Hall is not so basic nor simplistic to provide a kind of allegorical reading of these issues under his stories.

No, such a naive, perhaps crassly simple, view is the job of a reviewer bent on hinting at the multiple ideas running through the book.