Accidental Husband (Penguin Books)

Jane Green's "The Accidental Husband" is a powerful story about two women connected aby an earth-shattering secret. Maggie and Sylvie are perfect strangers: two very different women, living very different lives on opposite coasts. But they share more in common than they could ever imagine. Both women have beautiful children on the verge of flying the nest, the home they worked hard to build and always longed for, and a handsome and devoted husband they can't believe belongs to them. Both women think their lives are seamlessly secure, but they couldn't be more wrong...For each is about to discover a secret that will shake their world to the very core, throwing into doubt everything they ever thought they knew, and bringing Maggie and Sylvie together in the most unexpected way. Praise for Jane Green: "A heartbreaking tale of love and family, truly compelling". ("Closer"). "Compulsively readable. I raced through it". ("Daily Mail"). "Green is women's fiction royalty...a compelling family drama". ("Glamour"). Jane Green's internationally best-selling novels, including "The Other Woman", "Jemima J.", "Babyville", "Girl Friday" (published as Dune Road in the USA), "Life Swap" ("Swapping Lives"), "Spellbound" ("To Have and to Hold"), "The Beach House", "Second Chance", "Straight Talking", "Mr. Maybe", "Bookends", "The Love Verb" and "The Patchwork Marriage" ("Another Piece of My Heart") are incredibly moving and extremely relatable. "The Accidental Husband" is Jane's fourteenth novel. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their blended family of six children.