A Lost Wife's Tale: A Novel - Softcover
Once Edith Lutz had a life, a husband, and a home. Why did she run?
Edith doesn't want to be found, so she's taken on a new look, a new name, and an anonymous new life in New York City. Hoping to escape her past and start over, she's now working as a live-in housekeeper for wealthy, recently divorced publisher Adam. Edith is a breath of fresh air in her lonely employer's empty home, and she soon becomes more than just the woman who cleans the kitchen. But Adam knows nothing of the real woman he's falling in love with—or just how shaky the foundations of their blossoming relationship truly are. And Edith can never be sure that her dark history won't catch up to her. In fact, it's closer than she thinks.
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Marion McGilvary was restaurant critic for the Financial Times for three years and was short-listed for a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award. She has written for numerous publications in the UK, including The Times, The Observer, Vogue, Marie Claire, Women's Journal, and GQ. She has written and illustrated several children's books and is the author of two books based on her columns in the Times and Observer. She lives in London.
In McGilvary’s debut novel, a secret buried for years threatens to upend Agnes Morales’ quiet life. Rather than risk exposure, Agnes flees her husband, home, and everything she knows. She reinvents herself as the widow Edith Lutz, housekeeper to a recently divorced publisher, Adam Davenport, in New York City. Complications arise as Edith begins to fall in love with Adam and discovers the feeling is mutual. She grows more and more entwined in Adam’s life as she meets his children, faces his ex-wife, and hosts dinner parties for his friends, yet Adam knows little about her past. To Edith, the possibility of unveiling is an always looming shadow that threatens everything she holds dear. As McGilvary’s tantalizing novel draws to a close, a shocking event may well derail Edith’s future with Adam. So she must finally decide whether her strategy of hiding from her past is forcing her to abandon the future with Adam she so desires. --Katherine Boyle
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- Publication date2010
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