**The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is bristling with suspense about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.** **Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?** Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark
The expats: a novel
β Scribed by Chris Pavone
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group;Broadway Paperbacks
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 227 KB
- Edition
- 1st Broadway paperbacks ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The international thriller that Patricia Cornwell says is "bristling with suspense" about an American abroad who finds herself in complex web of intrigue.
Can We Ever Escape Our Secrets?
Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage . . . and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to leave behind her double-life, to start anew.
She begins to reinvent herself as an expat, finding her way in a language she doesn't speak, doing the housewifely things she's never before done--playdates and coffee mornings, daily cooking and never-ending laundry. Meanwhile, her husband works incessantly, at a job Kate has never understood, for a banking client she's not allowed to know. He's becoming distant and evasive; she's getting lonely and bored.
Then another American...
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