The Pilot’s Wife
Anita Shreve's novel follows a woman who, after her pilot husband dies in a crash, uncovers the double life he kept hidden.
Anita Shreve’s novel begins with a knock in the night: Kathryn Lyons learns that her husband, an airline pilot, has died when his plane went down off the Irish coast. As the investigation unfolds and rumors swirl, Kathryn discovers that the man she thought she knew kept a hidden life. The book is both a quiet mystery and a study of grief and the limits of intimacy.
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Oprah Winfrey
It's a story that starts tragically with a plane crash. I tell you that, it's the first page. OK? And ends with a wife questioning whether you can ever really know anyone at all.
Book Club · March 1999
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