Husbands & Lovers: A Novel

Two womenseparated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloomreclaim 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 dreadsher tenyearold 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, Mallorys forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mothers adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own allconsuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend Monk Adamsnow one of the worlds most beloved singersongwritersa fairytale 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 herselfmarriage 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 Hannahs 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 issuesof privilege, class, and the female experienceinside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.