Family Pictures
Two women with even more in common than troubled daughters anchor Green’s latest offering. Widowed in her twenties, Sylvie Haydn raised her daughter, Eve, on her own until handsome businessman Mark Hathaway walked into her life and swept her off her feet. Mark becomes not only an adoring husband to Sylvie but also a doting father to Eve. For Sylvie, his only flaw is how often he travels for business, leading her to worry that he might be having an affair. When Eve travels to New York with a friend for a college visit, she discovers Mark’s secret is even more startling: he has another family. The revelation of Mark’s perfidy shakes not only Sylvie and Eve to the core but also his other family—wife Maggie, an unhappy socialite, and their three children. Readers might wish Green had focused a little less on the buildup to the less-than-shocking reveal and more on the aftermath and the unexpected bonds formed in the wake of the dissolution of two families. Nonetheless, it’s still an absorbing read with a gratifying conclusion.                  HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Best-selling Green’s latest will be launched with a 150,000-print run, author appearances, and a multimedia national publicity blitz. --Kristine Huntley