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'What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price' Joan Silber High school sweethearts, Sarah and Warren, have grand plans for an adventurous future together, but when a misunderstanding causes them to part ways, they end up marrying other people. When they meet again at sixty, their lives have been carved into very different shapes. Sarah lives outside New York; Warren lives in Boston. Sarah is divorced, Warren still married, and both have grown up children. When they reconnect, they feel the rekindled spark of love and desire - a spark that has been dead for so long. But are they willing to risk destroying all that they have built separately for the chance of a future together

Reviews

Compelling, heartstopping and all-too-believable, this is a marvelous read.'Gish Jen, author of The Resisters

'A searing interrogation of honor and passion. It dissects the hidden cost of the choices we make, and the consequences with which we must endeavor to live.Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse

'Robinson brings her wit, her beautiful sentences and her compassionate clarity to this book about the price of love and the enduring need for it.Amy Bloom, author of White Houses

Aremarkable novela quietly expansive story, in which elements of love and family coalesce and escalate into tragedy... A triumph of a book.Joan Silber, author of Improvement

'Robinsons smart, seductive writing style creates a sense of quiet menace that keeps the reader guessing until the books shattering conclusion.'Daily Mail

'Elegantly structured and written, shimmering with feeling and truth. A triumph.' Kirkus Reviews

'Robinsons upcoming novel is an impassioned portrayal of desire and loyalty, of romantic love and family duty, and an exploration into what we owe to each otherand to ourselves.' Oprah Daily

'These characters have such depth and this is an intense and heartbreaking story.' Prima
'Examining responsibility and love, this is a beautifully written, honest account of the reality of experiencing deep passion late in life.'Platinum

'Stunning... A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force...a wondrous feat.' Joan Frank,Washington Post

'Touching...fascinating... No one has ever written better about infidelity and the break-up of marriage...Robinson has captured all the sadness, poignancy, and resignation of loss. Anyone who has ever been left, has ever left someone, who has a daughter or perhaps even just a dog, will find in it an echo of their experience.' Spectator

'Robinsons captivating story of love, regret and the choices we make - or dont - is beautifully told, with two flawed and wonderfully drawn, nuanced characters at the heart of it.'Julie Emery,HeatMagazine

'The writing is beautiful; every sentence perfectly turned, and the settings are equally elegant.' Daily Mail

'This quietly compelling novel of forbidden love... Though its tone is muted, the book captures the aching pull of an all-consuming affair... Despite contemporary societys general acceptance of divorce, the novel shows how desire can still have painful consequences.' New Yorker

Author Bio

Roxana Robinson is the author of six novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of Georgia OKeeffe. Her books have been chosen as New York Times Notable Books and as New York Times Editors Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harpers and elsewhere. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. She teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. She lives in Connecticut.