The Daylight Marriage, Heidi Pitlor
The Daylight Marriage, Heidi Pitlor
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The Daylight Marriage

Author: Heidi Pitlor

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/05/2015


Synopsis

"Hypnotically readable—I absolutely couldn't put it down. The structure is brilliant, and I turned the pages with increasing dread. This book is terrific."—Stephen King

Hannah was the kind of woman who turned heads. Tall and graceful, naturally pretty, often impulsive, always spirited, the upper class girl who picked, of all men, Lovell—the introverted climate scientist, the practical one who thought he could change the world if he could just get everyone to listen to reason. After a magical honeymoon they settled in the suburbs to raise their two children. But over the years, Lovell and Hannah's conversations have become charged with resentments and unspoken desires. She's become withdrawn and directionless. His work affords him a convenient distraction. The children can sense the tension, which they've learned to mostly ignore. Until, after one explosive argument, Hannah vanishes. And Lovell, for the first time, is forced to examine the trajectory of his marriage through the lens of memory—and the eyes of his children. As he tries to piece together what happened to his wife—and to their lives together—listeners follow Hannah through that single day when the smallest of decisions takes her to places she never intended to go.

About Heidi Pitlor

Heidi Pitlor is a former senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and has been the series editor for The Best American Short Stories since 2007. She is the author of the novels The Birthdays, The Daylight Marriage, and Impersonation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janelle

Whoever the publicists for this book and The Girl on the Train are, they deserve an award. Getting me to purchase and read both of these piece of crap novels was quite a feat. Disgusted. I'm hoping that there is a slim chance that because this book has not yet been released to the impressionable pub......more