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Title details for The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh - Available

The Love of My Life

A Novel

by Rosie Walsh
Imogen Church
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
“Gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave
“A dazzling supernova of a book, it picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end.” —Lisa Jewell

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie.
And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real.
When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . .
But first, she must tell him about the other love of her life.

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  • Release date

    March 1, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593554401
      • File size: 330663 KB
      • Duration: 11:28:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 21, 2022
      Set in London, this heartbreaking thriller from bestseller Walsh (Ghosted) explores the complexity of secrets in marriages. Leo Philber, an obituary writer, has been happily married to 40ish marine ecologist Emma Bigelow for seven years. Emma has been battling lymphoma, and in his effort to cope with her possible death, Leo decides to draft her obituary in secret. To prepare, he begins to research her life, but after discovering secret Facebook messages and inconsistencies about her educational background, he concludes that he truly doesn’t know his wife. In chapters from Emma’s perspective, she reveals that, instead of doing extensive research at the Northumberland beaches, she has been having clandestine meetings related to the traumatizing event that changed her life 20 years earlier. Leo soon learns about the meetings and demands an explanation, but Emma vanishes after dropping off their three-year-old daughter at nursery school. Walsh cleverly integrates twists that not even jaded readers will be able to predict into an initially slow-burning plot that builds to an emotionally raw yet satisfying conclusion. Walsh is a writer to watch. Agent: Allison Hunter, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc.

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2022

      Leo and Emma have been married for 10 years and have endured a lot, including Emma's cancer treatment and subsequent remission early on in their marriage. Emma is relieved that her life with Leo and their young daughter is secure, but she wonders what would have been and reflects on how her life's path was rerouted when she gave up her blossoming career before she met her husband. Meanwhile, Leo writes advance obituaries for notable pseudo-celebrities. As a former on-air marine biologist, Emma becomes the subject of his latest advance obit. When Leo researches Emma's life for her obit, he discovers there is a lot about his wife he doesn't know. Emma is haunted by her past decisions and concerned by Leo's recent questions about her past and secrets she still fights to keep hidden. Alternating narrators--Imogen Church and Theo Solomon--keep this story line fresh and believable. VERDICT Walsh's (Ghosted) latest is a great listen for fans of stories involving family secrets and issues of postnatal depression.--Laura Brosie

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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