The Love of My Life: Rosie Walsh

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The Love of My Life is my favorite kind of thriller—gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.” What do you do when you find out everything your wife ever told you about herself is a lie? Allow Rosie Walsh's love story slash mystery, The Love of My Life, to explain.”

The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | Waterstones The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh | Waterstones

This novel features betrayal, deceptions and outright lies. Whose actions --- or inactions --- do you think were the most harmful, and why? My thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for the DRC of “The Love of My Life”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book. Sorry this didn't work out better. Fast-paced, eerie, and surprisingly profound. . . Walsh pairs a plot worthy of Ruth Ware with a Bridget Jones–esque cast for a mystery that ends with fireworks.” Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ... And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer; Emma a well-known marine biologist. When she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – researching and writing about his wife’s life. But as he starts to unravel the truth, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name isn’t real.

Leo decides he wants to be with Emma even once he learns the full truth, despite her deceptions. Would you have made the same choice? Why or why not?

The Love of My Life: A Novel: Walsh, Rosie: 9780593296998 The Love of My Life: A Novel: Walsh, Rosie: 9780593296998

In Rosie Walsh’s follow-up to Ghosted, The Love of My Life, Emma and Leo seem to have the perfect marriage. He’s an obituary writer; she’s a well-known marine biologist who once had her own BBC program. They have a two-year-old daughter, Ruby, and the news that Emma has survived a bout with cancer should make everything perfect. Instead, Leo accidentally stumbles on proof that Emma did not graduate from the college where she claimed to hold a degree. Pulling on that one thread unravels everything Leo thought he knew about Emma, from the reason she was let go from the BBC to her own name. As Emma pretends everything is alright, eventually Leo is forced to confront the one question no father ever wants to ask. Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she’s told them about herself is a lie. Brilliantly plotted and beautifully written, what really elevates Rosie Walsh’s book above the competition is the characters. Contradictory, flawed and entirely human, I loved and rooted for them like real people.” Chapters primarily alternate between the first person perspectives of the husband and wife, so the audiobook is narrated by Imogen Church and Theo Solomon. They both did a fine job, though even at 1.75x speed it felt longer than it needed to. I was eager to get to the end to see the plot’s resolution and also to move on with my life. A close friend met a man when she was a postgraduate student in the north of England. They had a beautiful night together, and in the morning went for brunch. While they were eating, the restaurant caught fire and they got separated during the evacuation. She looked everywhere for him but couldn’t find him. She was heartbroken! Neither of them knew each other’s surnames, so she couldn’t find him online.This is an ‘accidentally stayed up until 4 a.m. because it’s impossible to put down’ kind of novel.” –USA Today The author does a great job of getting the reader invested in Emma's and Leo's story: their relationship, their history together, Emma's complexities, Leo's unwavering support for Emma, and how they love each other so deeply. I cared about these two characters and was pulling for both of them! I think that it is a combination of the two. She already felt so much guilt about her decisions that she found them difficult to discuss. Learning that Leo was adopted and his reaction to being adopted made it even harder to tell him the truth since... - robynn

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Where I struggled a bit was with the tone. Is the novel a slow-burn family drama? Or a domestic thriller? It felt a little like what you’d get if Anne Tyler and Lisa Jewell decided to co-author something. Comparison to either of those two writers is far from a bad thing, but I’m not sure they’d make great collaborators.a solid 4 stars, perhaps 4.5. fans of THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME will enjoy this one. i prefer that one over this, though.