The Love of My Life: A GMA Book Club Pick
A Novel
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4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
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Publisher Description
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
“Rosie Walsh’s The Love of My Life is my favorite kind of thriller—gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core
I have held you at night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house.
Who are you?
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie.
And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real.
When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . .
But first, she must tell him about the other love of her life.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Your heart will ache for the couple in this heart-pounding domestic thriller when long-buried secrets rise to the surface of their seemingly perfect marriage. Newspaper obituary writer Leo thinks he knows everything worth knowing about his beloved wife, Emma, a successful marine biologist. But when she begins cancer treatment and he superstitiously starts working on her obituary, he discovers just how much about her he doesn’t know—like her education, her career, even her real name. We were stunned by each revelation, but most intriguing of all is the discovery that Emma shares a secret past with a prominent TV pundit and his troubled actress wife. Author Rosie Walsh brilliantly alternates between the journeys of these characters in first-person chapters, deepening our sympathy and confusion with the back-and-forth shifts. Prepare to be thrilled by the loving intimacy, heartbreaking betrayals, and startling twists that fill this tale of lies, love, and redemption.
Customer Reviews
Loved it
Well done. I’m sorry I finished it. I want to stay with the characters longer.
Great read!!
So many twists and turns, you’ll never imagine how it all comes together. I was wrong so many times!! You won’t want to put it down. You can feel the pain of each character.
The Love of my Life
I would have given five stars except I felt all the crab descriptions got to be tedious and uninteresting. Once the story picked up, it was a real page turner. There is a twist I couldn’t have predicted. That was satisfying.