The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller.
- 389 pages ; 24 cm
"A novel"--Dust jacket. "Reeses Book Club"--Cover.
On a perfect July morning Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at "The Paper Palace"-- the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. This morning is different: last night Elle and her oldest friend Jonas crept out the back door into the darkness and had sex with each other for the first time, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Over the next 24 hours Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her genuinely beloved husband, Peter, and the life she always imagined she would have had with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadnt forever changed the course of their lives. -- adapted from jacket.
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Adultery--Fiction First loves--Fiction Family secrets--Fiction Life change events--Fiction Secrecy--Fiction Middle-aged women--Fiction Vacation homes--Fiction Married women--Fiction Families--Fiction Desire--Fiction Man-woman relationships--Fiction