Two women-separated by decades and continents and united by an exotic family heirloom-reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. My favorite kind of page-turner-unputdownable!-Martha Hall Kelly author of The Golden Doves 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 searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life Mallorys forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mothers 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- one of the worlds most beloved singer-songwriters-a fairy tale cut short by a devastating 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 with 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 Hannahs longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations. Timeless and bittersweet Husbands & Lovers takes 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.
