Lover

Name: Lover
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Raverat
ISBN: 9781501949647

Author: Anna Raverat

Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/07/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life

Synopsis

You can learn a lot about a husband by reading his e-mail-sometimes, too much Kate, a senior executive at a multinational hotel company, has devoted her life to her job and her family. Catering to the needs of others comes easily to her, but now, after ten years of marriage and two children, Kate discovers e-mails from her husband to another woman. Forced to take a long look at her marriage, she finds that there are all kinds of things she's been doing her best not to see. At the same time, the political machinations in her office begin to take on an increasingly Shakespearean level of drama and ferocity. With both her work and home lives crumbling around her, Kate has to keep up appearances for her daughters as she tries to figure out who her husband really is and what he means to her now. Lover, the British writer Anna Raverat's U.S. debut, is a detailed observation of love, work, and life told through a woman's crumbling marriage. In a first-person voice so compelling that the novel reads like a thriller, Raverat paints an acute portrait of the female psyche, exploring intimacy and the politics of work. Lover is both an intellectually rich and an emotionally gripping read about a woman finding her place in the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Blair

When I began this review, I wrote this whole spiel about how I was worried about reading Lover because I loved Raverat's Signs of Life so much and I had such high expectations for it and I was (kind of) right to worry because I just found this book to be fine, just fine, and that in itself is de......more

Goodreads review by Maha

Lover is a book about infidelity.The blurb was compelling to me and I wanted to read more. Kate is a wife, a mother and a working woman. She has what she thinks as the perfect life. Two lovely adorable girls, a loving husband and a promising career that she loves. Going through Adam’s, the husband,......more

Goodreads review by Fiona

Meh. This reads like chick lit only without any drama. I was disappointed - Anna Raverat's first novel, Signs of Life, was excellent: a nuanced portrayal of the aftereffects of trauma, with an interesting fractured timeline and and a dramatic ending. So I had high hopes of this one, which unfortunat......more

Goodreads review by Anne

"There is no such thing as a broken heart. The heart is a muscle, not a vase." These are the words spoken by Kate's boss Trish. Kate would like to disagree with Trish as the pain that she is feeling, deep inside, feels pretty real to her. It started when she found the emails addressed to 'Prince Charm......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth

The book summary and the first 1/3 of the book had me excited. After that, the first 100 pages or so the book didn't seem to go anywhere and just contained various ramblings about the cheating husband and how the wife had to go on from there. The book didn't have much of a plot, and I was left happy......more