You are every single character involved in this story of life. Honestly, the thickening in your throat and the constant dry gulps to try clear it only make trying not to allow the feelings of those words on the pages of TLOML drip down your face.Īs a parent, a partner, a daughter, a friend and foe of some this is a traumatic and life altering dive. This is honestly one of the most heart wrenching, gut turning, absolutely devastating books I've ever read.

* The New York Times top ten bestseller * īut first, she must tell him about the love of her other life. When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past life finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was. But as he starts to unravel her past, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – reading and writing about her life. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie.Īnd she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. A dog, a house.Įmma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name.

(Mar.From the bestselling author of The Man Who Didn’t Call, The Love of My Life is a story about what happens when you discover the person you trust most in the world isn't who they say they are. Agent: Allison Hunter, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc. Walsh cleverly integrates twists that not even jaded readers will be able to predict into an initially slow-burning plot that builds to an emotionally raw yet satisfying conclusion. Leo soon learns about the meetings and demands an explanation, but Emma vanishes after dropping off their three-year-old daughter at nursery school.

In chapters from Emma’s perspective, she reveals that, instead of doing extensive research at the Northumberland beaches, she has been having clandestine meetings related to the traumatizing event that changed her life 20 years earlier. To prepare, he begins to research her life, but after discovering secret Facebook messages and inconsistencies about her educational background, he concludes that he truly doesn’t know his wife. Emma has been battling lymphoma, and in his effort to cope with her possible death, Leo decides to draft her obituary in secret. Leo Philber, an obituary writer, has been happily married to 40ish marine ecologist Emma Bigelow for seven years. Set in London, this heartbreaking thriller from bestseller Walsh ( Ghosted) explores the complexity of secrets in marriages.

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