Books like You are the love of my life by Susan Shreve

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter, a children's book illustrator, is a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood 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. This is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection. It is a tale of how the secrets of the past can haunt the present, and how the search for truth can lead to a deeper understanding of the self and the world around us.

First publish date: 2012