Books like The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
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Men Without Women
Seven stories about men who have lost the women in their lives, including an actor who hires a young woman as his driver and finds himself telling her about his late wife.
While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
Brooklyn
In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey leaves her mother and sister in a small Irish town for a job in Brooklyn, where homesickness slowly gives way to a new life and a love affair, until news from home calls her back.
The Wedding People
Phoebe Stone arrives at a grand old inn in Newport, Rhode Island, alone and in despair, and finds every other room booked for a lavish wedding, whose exacting bride is not pleased to have her there.
The River Is Waiting
Corby Ledbetter, laid off from his advertising job, is looking after his two-year-old twins while his wife teaches, and hiding an addiction to alcohol and pills, until a moment's carelessness at home ends in tragedy.
Tara Road
When her husband leaves her, Ria Lynch, who has always lived for her family and her house on Tara Road in Dublin, agrees to swap homes for the summer with Marilyn Vine, an American stranger mourning her son in Connecticut.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Stoner
A Missouri farm boy becomes a literature professor at the University of Missouri and lives a quiet, thwarted life that only gains shape in its retelling.
Olive Kitteridge
Thirteen linked stories circle Olive Kitteridge, a fierce, difficult maths teacher in coastal Maine, whose small cruelties and unexpected tenderness touch a whole town.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
The Lost Apothecary
In 1791 Nella runs a hidden London apothecary selling poisons to women who want rid of the men who wronged them, and two centuries later Caroline, alone on the anniversary trip she meant to take with her husband, finds an old apothecary vial in the Thames mud.