Synopsis
Kate is smart, successful and adept at making people feel at home: her husband Adam, her children, the guests of the hotel chain she works for. But her own foundations are about to be knocked away – for while Kate has been building a life, Adam's attention has been elsewhere. Who is the woman he’s been emailing? And whose number keeps showing up on his phone? Kate tries to hold things together for her daughters, but what can she say, now Adam won’t be coming home? As Kate searches for answers, she is forced to reassess her family, her future, and the man she thought she knew . . .
Details
23 March 2017
336 pages
9780330544696
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
“Anna Raverat is a humane and generous writer, giving voice to our best instincts and communicating, by quiet and often funny moments, a sense of our ability to overcome adversity with love.”Chris Cleave
“Wise and subtle and witty . . . filled with humanity and warmth. A compulsively readable book about a breakup from a brilliant new writer”Maggie Gee
“I wept through Lover by Anna Raverat. It's written with such a light touch, but is so piercing and so true.”Liza Klaussmann, author of Tigers In Red Weather
“Real, delicious summer reading, one for your suitcase, but with the bite of truthfulness . . . telling the story of a husband's adulterous affair with unflinching truthfulness but also wit and generosity of spirit. A wise novel with values that is also elegantly written and a gripping read”Maggie Gee, Observer New Review
