![]() ![]() All that passes for reality is unstable in The Love of My Life. Her narrative is studded with evasively worded passages that lure us readers into dead ends, switchback turns, false sutures between scenes and a startling final climax. They have a two-year-old daughter, Ruby, and the news that Emma has survived a. He’s an obituary writer she’s a well-known marine biologist who once had her own BBC program. In Rosie Walsh’s follow-up to Ghosted, The Love of My Life, Emma and Leo seem to have the perfect marriage. As appealing as the characters of Emma and Leo are, the essential draw of a domestic suspense story such as this one is its plot. Sometimes the secrets are about sadness, loss, and love. Walsh just may have written the first domestic suspense novel in which the deceitful spouse is also a genuinely nice person. But, Emma Merry Bigelow, the enigmatic heroine of Rosie Walsh’s The Love of My Life, seems so funny, warm, compassionate and kind that we readers root for her-even though we learn fairly quickly that she’s living under an assumed name and harbors a host of other secrets, something her adoring husband, Leo, doesn’t know about. ![]() Usually, the partner with a secret triggers suspicion in us canny readers early on. ![]() ![]() The Love of My Life is a classic example of the 'I married a stranger' domestic suspense plot-with a twist. ![]()
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