You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

by Susan Richards Shreve
You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel

by Susan Richards Shreve

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Overview

“Spare, elegant and absolutely riveting.” —People

It’s 1973 and the Watergate scandal is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter, a children’s book illustrator and single mother of two, leaves New York and the married father of her children to return to Washington, DC, to the neighborhood where she grew up and the house where her father committed 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 new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family’s safety and stability become threatened. Beautifully told, 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393345940
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 08/05/2013
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Susan Richards Shreve is the author of fifteen previous novels, a memoir, and thirty books for children. She is a former president and co-chair of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. A Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she lives in Washington, D.C

What People are Saying About This

Ann Hood

I couldn't put this book down! From its opening pages, which hint at the mysteries and complexities of the human heart, right until the final pages when Susan Richards Shreve reveals her characters' secrets and disappointments and hopes, I found You Are the Love of My Life completely irresistible.

Hilma Wolitzer

Susan Shreve is a terrific storyteller who always brings her characters to vivid, sympathetic life. You Are the Love of my Life is my favorite of her books.

Dani Shapiro

The corrosive power of family secrets is at the heart of this gripping tale—a beautifully written page-turner that kept me in its thrall until the very end.

Edith Pearlman

You Are the Love of My Life takes place in a cozy little neighborhood in Washington, where every family tries to conceal not-so-cozy secrets under tattered falsehoods. It's a memorable study of how lies can enslave people and truth set them free.

Ron Rash

The high price of a truth concealed is at the center of this remarkable, ultimately hopeful novel. Susan Shreve reveals her characters and their lives with empathy, wisdom, and, best of all, not a whiff of condescension .

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