You Are the Love of My Life

Name: You Are the Love of My Life
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Richards Shreve
ISBN: 9781624060243

Author: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrator: Karen White

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 09/25/2012

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Susan Richards Shreve

Susan Richards Shreve is the author of fifteen novels, a memoir, and thirty books for children. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment grant, among other honors. A professor of creative writing at George Mason University and former chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurel-Rain on August 12, 2012

In 1951, Samuel Baldwin, an important government employee, was found dead in the family's rental property in Wichita Hills, by his twelve-year-old daughter Lucy. For many years afterwards, Lucy and her mother lived in Santa Fe, where they had escaped after the scandal. Secrets about that event would......more

Goodreads review by Chris on May 07, 2013

Happened upon this book while working, looked interesting. Just what affect does keeping secrets have on a woman's relationship with her children, her ability to make friends, to experience intimacy? Indeed, on her ability to enjoy life? Lucy Painter's life is all about hiding the truth and in the n......more

Goodreads review by Joey on October 15, 2012

I won this book from GoodReads so THanks!!! The characters in this book were all really pathetic. I didn't like any of them except maybe the kids. Lucy, the main character, was really hard to like. She has two kids with a married man and is either too stupid or too pathetic to realize that he is NEVE......more