'Heart-wrenching, beautiful and thought-provoking it made me cry, smile and hug my own loved ones a little tighter' - Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare The writing is vivid and tender, the plot so skilfully constructed, I couldn't turn the pages fast enough and the characters have stayed with me, long after reaching the end' - Lucy Diamond 'This is the story of the secrets within a marriage, told with real insight and compassion. 'Fabulous! Unexpected, gripping and surprisingly heart wrenching. Each chapter is filled with heart-breaking twists and revelations, and it's brimming with human warmth and intelligence' - Lisa Jewell ' The Love of My Life is a dazzling supernova of a book, which picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781529020359 Number of pages: 368 Weight: 477 g Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.īut first, she must tell him about the love of her other life. 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. Who are you?Įmma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them.

The distance between me and another human being, just for that moment, was erased.I have held you every night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. Stricken by a fear of flying but armed with Ativan, Val makes the trek to the same frigid camp where her twin brother had committed suicide-or did he? As the pieces click together, she finds herself at the edge of a menacing Arctic twilight, yearning for connection and her comfort zone: “I felt safest in my office, alone with my books, charts, runic symbols, and scraps of old text and when I deciphered a chunk of language-even a word!-a thrill of understanding juddered up my spine. A climate scientist in remote northern Greenland reaches out to Val with an inexplicable puzzle: He’s unearthed a 15-year-old girl- alive-from an ice crevasse, babbling in fragments and sentences that bear no resemblance to any speech on earth. In Ferencik’s supple, dazzling novel, Val Chesterfield, a Massachusetts-based linguist with a passion for dead Nordic tongues, tumbles into a perilous Arctic maze that wends back and forth to her own troubled psyche.

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