After the Fire, Belva Plain
After the Fire, Belva Plain
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After the Fire

Author: Belva Plain

Narrator: Anne Twomey

Abridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2000


Synopsis

In her stunning new novel, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain has written a compelling story of family and fortune, beauty and betrayal. With unerring insight and emotional power, she penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time.

What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between a naïve young artist and her handsome physician husband. At first everything is idyllic. Then one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives her husband the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children.

When her own beautiful, angry mother wants to know why she won't fight for custody, she can give no answers. For she alone knows, or believes she knows, what really happened on that fateful night.

In a novel that is both provocative and heartbreaking, Belva Plain proves herself the writer who sets the standard for family stories, a novelist of incomparable depth and grace.

About The Author

Belva Plain captured readers' hearts with her first novel, Evergreen, which Delacorte published more than 30 years ago. It topped the New York Times best-seller list for 41 weeks and aired as an NBC-TV miniseries. In total, more than 20 of her books have been New York Times best sellers.   Before becoming a novelist,  Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines, but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she had always wanted to write. When she looked back and said she didn't have the time, she felt as though she had been making excuses. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." But, she reminded us, during the era that she was raising her family, women were supposed to concentrate only on their children. Today 30 million copies of her books are in print.   A Barnard College graduate who majored in history,  Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist. Widowed for more than 25 years, Ms. Plain continued to reside in New Jersey, where she and her husband had raised their family and which was still home to her nearby children and grandchildren until her death in October 2010.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Diane on January 03, 2018

Ok read! intriguing and a bit sketchy in the storyline (paperback!)......more

Goodreads review by Cathryn on April 25, 2021

This is good ChickLit. Not great, just good. While the story is fairly engrossing, it's also too simple without the complex nuances that are a hallmark of great fiction. And perhaps worst of all, it is absolutely predictable. The big surprise plot twist near the end of the book isn't so much of a su......more

Goodreads review by Denise on July 16, 2012

Excellent writing, but the story... can women be so DUMB. Every page I'm expecting Hyacinth to stand up and call her husband's bluff, but she meekly stands by allowing her life to be ruined. Don't teach your daughters to live their lives like her.......more

Goodreads review by Sandi on December 17, 2015

I liked this book better at the end than I did throughout the story line. I had a hard time feeling for the characters, which is totally unlike my other experiences with Ms. Plain's books. Not that it wasn't still a good book, cause it was.......more

Goodreads review by Janet on July 01, 2015

An above average story about a family in turmoil.......more


Quotes

"Belva Plain doesn't know how not to write a bestseller."—Newsday

"Belva Plain is in a class by herself!" —The New York Times