You Are the Love of My Life A Novel Author:Susan Richards Shreve For fans of Sue Miller, a finely wrought novel of family secrets and the desire for sustaining love. 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 a tightly knit Washington neighbo... more »rhood 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: her children know nothing of her father?s death or the identity of their own father. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family?s safety and stability become threatened.From a writer whose ?unique presentation of human experience makes reading a delight? (Elizabeth Strout), You Are the Love of My Life is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.« less