You Are the Love of My Life

By Susan Richards Shreve
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393082807, 298pp.)

Publication Date: August 2012

Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Compact Disc, MP3 CD

Categories: Family Life

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It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father's death or the identity of their own father. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family's safety and stability become threatened.From a writer whose "unique presentation of human experience makes reading a delight" (Elizabeth Strout), You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.



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