You Are the Love of My Life

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.

From a writer whose “unique

presentation of human experience makes reading a delight” (Elizabeth Strout), *You Are the Love of

My Life* is a story of how

shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human

connection.