Recognition

A New York Times Book of the Year

DAILY MAIL ''BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR TO GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS''

SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE ''WINTER WARMERS''

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''One of the most emotionally truthful novels I have ever read'' DAISY BUCHANAN

''Almost every line glows with even-handed wisdom - a superb novel, beautifully put together'' DAILY MAIL

''An invaluably moving book'' JULIET NICOLSON

''One to read first for the story and then to re-read at leisure and marvel at how real these people feel'' ERIN KELLY

''Penetrating, intelligent, humane, funny too ... Smart and powerfully alive'' TESSA HADLEY

Synopsis

Annie is not the first love of Graham's life but she is, he thinks, his last and greatest. Very recently, he has faltered; but he means to put it right.

Here they are in marriage, in late middle age, in comfort. Mismatched, and yet so well matched: the bookseller with his appetite, his conviviality, his bigness; the photographer with her delicacy, her astuteness, her reserve. The children are offstage, grown up and scattered on either coast; Graham's first wife, Frieda, is peaceably in their lives, but not between them.

Then the unthinkable happens. Now Annie stumbles in the dark: did she know all there was to know about the man who loved her? If no marriage is without its small indiscretions, how great does a betrayal have to be to be to break it?

A novel about marriage, family, secrets and love, Monogamy confirms Sue Miller's place among the greatest writers at work in America today.