The Pilot's Wife

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Title 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 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-316-78908-9 (hardback edition)
Preceded by Sea Glass

The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is proceeded by Fortune's Rocks and Sea Glass.

The novel was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for March of 1999.

[edit] Plot summary

The novel is about Kathryn Lyons, whose husband, Jack Lyons dies in a tragic plane crash accident somewhere over the Atlantic 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.

[edit] Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 2002. It was directed by Robert Markowitz and stars Christine Lahti and Campbell Scott.

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