num_pages: 320
description: The illegitimate daughter of a glamorous concert singer and a rakish, celebrated portrait painter, Mirelle Martin has spent mostof her adult life trying to conform to the standards of middle-class suburbia. Denying her artistic heritage and largely ignoring her own great gift as a sculptress, she has devoted herself to being a wife to Steve and a mother to Tonia, Nick and Roman. For fifteen years this has seemed to be enough, but during the year of The Lucy major events are to happen that will change the lives of all of them.On impulse, Mirelle decides to begin a sculpture of Lucy, the friend who, years go, encouraged her to develop her talent and ignore the narrow minds who looked askance at her exotic and unconventional upbringing. Memories of Lucy, now gone, stir an emotional rebellion which will culminate in a dramatic and surprising upheavel. Meeting James Howell, a charming concert pianist--as out of palce in suburbia as she--will ultimately lead her to discover new things about herself and acknowledge an identity she has sought desperately to conceal.
language: English
title: The Year of the Lucy
titlecomplete: The Year of the Lucy
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy
ratings_count: 529
publisher: Tor Books