You Are the Love of My Life A Novel

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is achildren's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York andthe married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washingtonneighborhood in the house where she grew up andwhere she discovered her father's suicide. Lucyhopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children knownothing of her father's death or the identity of their ownfather. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family'ssafety and stability become threatened. From a writer whose "uniquepresentation of human experience makes reading a delight" (Elizabeth Strout), You Are the Love ofMy Life is a story of howshame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of humanconnection.