Description
To the outside world Lynn Ferguson has it all. A dream home, a very successful husband, two beautiful children, and glamorous parties at the country club.
Her closest friend Josie, however, can see that not everything in Lynn’s life is quite as perfect as it seems. Robert Ferguson is somehow too ambitious and correct, the children are becoming increasingly difficult, and, most worrying of all, she can occasionally make out the tell-tale marks that have begun to mar Lynn’s lovely face.
But Lynn cannot bear to reveal what is really going on in the Ferguson household. For she is unable to admit to anyone, much less herself, that her idyllic life is based on a lie. She has never been able to piece together all the parts of her husband’s past – his failed first marriage, and the son he never discusses. Perhaps somewhere in those mysterious years lies the key to the violence that is tearing her family apart.
And the combination of Lynn’s desperate self-delusion, the pain she sees in her children’s eyes, and the dreadful cycle of contrition is about to explode and change her life forever.
Written with extraordinary warmth, insight and sensitivity, Belva Plain’s new novel is an inspiring and compelling story about a family’s heartbreak, a woman’s courage, and about a subject too long discussed only in Whispers.
Hardcover. 332 pages.
In very good to excellent preloved condition.
