You are the love of my life

Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve

Location(s): United States (USA), Washington DC

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1970s

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It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone’s lips. Lucy Painter is a children’s book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in Washington in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father’s suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start but her life is full of secrets.

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Accurate to some extent about life in the 70s. Washington DC is a very different kettle of fish to life in NYC, and gently written read. – DeliaDemo –

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Gentle and Elegant

Author: Anne Cater

There is a gentle elegance to Susan Richards Shreve’s writing. This is a slow-moving and quietly composed novel, one that relies heavily on it’s characters rather than it’s plot. Lucy and her two children are moving from their New...