The Pilot's Wife

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The Pilot's Wife
First edition cover
Author Anita Shreve
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Little, Brown
Released May 1998
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 293 p. (hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-78908-9 (hardback edition)

The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a novel by Anita Shreve, which was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for March of 1999. The Pilot's Wife is a book based on a woman, Kathryn Lyons, whose husband, Jack Lyons dies in a tragic plane crash accident somewhere over the Ocean near Ireland. As she and her daughter Mattie try to cope with this sudden loss, she finds herself bombarded by the press. While she and the airlines try to find the reason for the crash, she slowly unravels a series of secrets her husband has kept from her until she realizes that he lived a secret life she never knew about.