Fiction by Diane Chamberlain
At the beginning of this story, Claire Harte-Mathias is the perfect wife to her husband Jon, an accomplished man who also is paralyzed from the waist down. Claire has lived a charmed life, going from a happy childhood to an idyllic marriage seamlessly. But Claire is also repressing almost everything about herself without knowing it.
Across the country, her estranged sister Vanessa has a very different set of memories about their childhood; to Vanessa the past a dark and dangerous place. The two girls were separated by their divorcing parents as children and haven't been in contact since. Vanessa wants to keep it that way.
This was an amazing book in my opinion. I notice that many reviewers disagree and say they hated it and hated Claire specifically. While it's true that Claire is actually kind of a terrible person, I felt that the author gave us enough insight into her personality to make her understandable. It takes great writing to create realistic characters like this. But then, I'm a real Diane Chamberlain fangirl.
I also read recently by this author: Secret Lives
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