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.
- ISBN10 0393082806
- ISBN13 9780393082807
- Publish Date 22 August 2012 (first published 20 August 2012)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 9 April 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English