You Are the Love of My Life Paperback by Susan Richards Shreve

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2013-08-06)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 304 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393345940
• Item Weight: 244.94 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

“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.

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