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HTML:Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?… (meer)
Unremarkable. Had an IRA twist, but I saw it a mile away. Pilot, secret family, blah blah blah. Why are teenagers always written as necessarily annoying. Not much more to say about this novel.
any book about death and grief can be depressing, but this was a page turner. Great character development. Just when I had had enough with the grief... there was a twist! really liked it ( )
Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "Remember it well; pilot has two wives, one on each side of the Atlantic. Consider it average, and so why do I remember it so vividly??? P.S. Two copies in the Adams office as of this writing." ( )
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.' As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?
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Op een avond krijgt Kathy het vreselijke bericht dat haar man, een piloot, met zijn vliegtuig vol passagiers is verongelukt boven de kust van Noord-Ierland. Ze heeft nauwelijks de tijd het nieuws te verwerken, want de pers stort zich direct op het tragische ongeluk.
Het lichaam van haar man is nog niet geborgen, of de meedogenloze persaandacht zorgt er al voor dat zijn diepste geheimen boven water komen.
Maar wat is er waar van het gerucht dat hij jarenlang een verhouding had? Kathy wil weten wie haar echtgenoot echt was. Haar zoektocht leidt tot een paar schokkende ontdekkingen, die haar leven en huwelijk in een heel nieuw daglicht plaatsen…
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