

In chapters from Emma’s perspective, she reveals that, instead of doing extensive research at the Northumberland beaches, she has been having clandestine meetings related to the traumatizing event that changed her life 20 years earlier.

To prepare, he begins to research her life, but after discovering secret Facebook messages and inconsistencies about her educational background, he concludes that he truly doesn’t know his wife. Emma has been battling lymphoma, and in his effort to cope with her possible death, Leo decides to draft her obituary in secret. Leo Philber, an obituary writer, has been happily married to 40ish marine ecologist Emma Bigelow for seven years. Set in London, this heartbreaking thriller from bestseller Walsh ( Ghosted) explores the complexity of secrets in marriages.
