Every Day

In the rare moments when Leigh Adelman has time to consider her chaotic life, it takes her breath away: it's filled with three wonderful children and Simon, a devoted husband and father. Leigh's suburban New York life is fourteen years distant from her first love, an electric adventure that produced her first child -- and taught her that even all-consuming passion doesn't mean happily ever after. That intense, hopeful time had slowly receded to a remote corner of her heart...until the summer morning when Fowler popped back into her life.Unfinished business compels Leigh to see the brilliant, uncompromising Fowler. And as soon as she hears his voice she understands that she has always loved him. But this rendezvous turns out to be less about first love than it is about a last chance. For it is clear that Fowler is dying.Honest, moving and utterly authentic,Every Dayis about testing the boundaries of love, and living with the often messy consequences. For anyone who has ever daydreamed about the past, or silently wonderedwhat if,this unforgettable novel rings with one essential truth: the toughest choices yield the most unexpected rewards.

Elizabeth Richards is the author of Rescue, now available from Pocket Books. She has published fiction in Mademoiselle and various literary magazines and lives in Riverdale, New York, with her two daughters.