Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
Publication: June
25, 2024 by Ballantine Books
Genre: Chick Lit,
Historical Fiction
Taken from Goodreads:
Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a
mysterious family heirloom—reclaim family secrets and lost loves in this
sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author
of The Summer Wives.
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single
mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her
ten-year-old son Sam had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning
from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, in a search
for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life,
Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s
adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming
summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend Monk
Adams—now one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairytale
cut short by an agonizing betrayal.
Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension
in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new
life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat, a coveted posting in
glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a
hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken
Hannah's longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers
in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared into a
game of intrigue between two men…and an act of sacrifice that will echo down
the generations.
Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands And
Lovers draws readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and
redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed
beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has
written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human
characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and
the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.
My Thoughts: Beatriz Williams is
a must-read author. Her historical
fiction books transport me back in time while her characters become real
people. Husbands & Lovers is a dual
timeline book. Mallory is a single mom
with a son that needs a kidney transplant.
Hannah is in Egypt in the 1950’s.
Both characters have a past that they are not talking about and future
that will not be easy.
Husbands & Lovers is a book that pulled me right in and I did not
want to leave. Mallory
is a strong character that made choices for the good of her son, making
her a wonderful mother. Hannah’s story
taught me about Egypt during the revolution while also showing how strong love
can be. Both characters made choices
that did not make their lives easy but they both showed their strength to have
a future.
The storylines intertwine and come together perfectly. I wish I could read this book again for the
first time.
Thank you Ballantine Books for a copy of the book via Netgalley in
exchange for my honest review.
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Meet Beatriz Williams (taken from
her website): Beatriz Williams is
the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling
author of Our Woman in Moscow, The Summer Wives, Her
Last Flight, The Golden Hour, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A
Hundred Summers, and several other works of historical fiction, including
four novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and
Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance
from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate
strategy consultant in New York and London before her first novel was published
in 2012. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into
more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around
the world.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives near the Connecticut
shore with her husband and four children, where she divides her time between
writing and laundry.
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