The Pilot's Wife
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Author | Anita Shreve |
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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.