The Love of My Life: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel
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.
“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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Readers say *The Love of My Life* is a slow-building, emotional mystery focused on love, trauma, and secrets rather than a typical thriller. Many appr...
I really enjoyed this book. A bit slow to get into but over time the themes of love, lose and how we heal were very powerful.
Everything about Emma is a lie, but she keeps her secrets. When she suffers a serious illness and there is a possibility that she might die, Leo, an obituary writer by trade, begins to formulate the rough draft of his wife's obituary. While doing so, he finds many discrepancies between what she had told him to be true and the real facts. For example, she did not graduate from college when she said she did, and she was fired from a previous job. As Leo uncovers the truth, information about Emma's past is revealed.
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Emma had once had a child out of wedlock and had given it up for adoption. She develops a relationship to the adoptive mother and begins stalking her so she can see glimpses of her child. Eventually, the adoptive parents had her arrested. As a result, Emma is fired from her job. She eventually confesses all to Leo and tells him she didn't tell him because he had been so traumatized when he learned he had been adopted and his parents never told him.
This was an OK book but seemed so derivative of other books I have read. Woman hiding a secret- seems to be the plot of too many books.
Spoiler alert:
Emma had once had a child out of wedlock and had given it up for adoption. She develops a relationship to the adoptive mother and begins stalking her so she can see glimpses of her child. Eventually, the adoptive parents had her arrested. As a result, Emma is fired from her job. She eventually confesses all to Leo and tells him she didn't tell him because he had been so traumatized when he learned he had been adopted and his parents never told him.
This was an OK book but seemed so derivative of other books I have read. Woman hiding a secret- seems to be the plot of too many books.
This book was sooo amazing! I absolutely loved it. The way things just came together in around the middle to the end, perfect. I was not expecting that the title was about the son!
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