Genre: Women's Fiction | Romance | Mystery
Release Date: Expected 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
"The problem with lying to your husband is that it changes everything and nothing."
Emma was late to her own wedding because she had to stop and photograph the tide … in her wedding dress. But Leo married her anyway, because that was Emma and he loved her regardless.
But the woman he's loved for a decade, the woman he married and raised his daughter with isn't Emma. Emma doesn't exist. His wife is a stranger, and he doesn't even know her real name. He only found out by chance; when she got sick he started to write about her, about her life, but even his job as an obituary writer couldn't prepare him for trying to write about someone like Emma.
His digging didn't just bring up dirt, it brought up something worse - little loose threads in her life that began to unravel. And now Emma needs to try and prove to her husband that despite all the secrets, he is the love of her life. But do that, she'll finally have to reveal who she really was, and the love of her former life.
"It's only when something's damaged beyond repair that we realise how beautiful it was."
A simply stunning tale about love, loss and life - a story where nothing is as it seems, and the line between good and bad blurs depending on which way you're looking and who's talking. There was a spellbinding sense of mystery and intrigue, not in the end-of-the-world way but in sense of the very worst thing that can happen in real life and can be even more heartbreakingly terrifying.
This was intensely compelling, I tore through the pages desperate to find out what Emma was hiding and just what events could've made her leave an entire life behind her. Told from the perspective of Emma and Leo, each of them had such uniquely strong voices - they jump between the revelations happening now and the memories of their joint and separate pasts, creating a vivid picture of their lives naturally.
The Love of my Life takes the reader to the darkest, most desperate parts of the human condition and tries to search for the beauty of redemption in whichever form it takes.
"Like a solo traveller in the arrivals hall of an airport; that absurd hope we hold, as humans, that we're not alone, even when all the evidence tells us we are."
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Thank you to Pan Macmillan for inviting me to take part in this tour. I was gifted a reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.
CW: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Adoption, Post Partum Depression, Stalking, Death, Alcohol, Drugs, Suicide.
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