The Mermaid Chair
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing Ltd
Published: 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780755327003
First sentence: February 17, 1988, I opened my eyes and heard a procession of sounds: first the phone going off on the opposite side of the bed, rousing us at 5:04 A.M. to what could only be a calamity, then rain pummeling the roof of our old Victorian house, sluicing its sneaky way to the basement, and finally small puffs of air coming from Hugh's lower lip, each one perfectly timed, like a metronome.