The Law of Bound Hearts

✍ Scribed by LeClaire, Anne D

• Book ID: 107355307
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 224 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

With Entering Normal and Leaving Eden , Anne LeClaire brilliantly probed the interior lives of women--friends, mothers, daughters--bringing to vivid life the conflict, surprises, and resilience of their complex relationships. Now in her new novel, The Law of Bound Hearts , LeClaire focuses her gaze on sisters, with the same compassion, insight, and startling breadth of emotion.

Sisters Libby and Sam Lewis were inseparable as little girls, best friends and soul mates. But a terrible event during in their 30s completely shatters their tender connection. Now the sisters live entirely unconnected lives. Happily married, Libby manages a spotless household, clings to schedules, and maintains a vigorous exercise routine; a pastry chef who harbors no romantic delusions, Sam runs a successful decorative cake business out of her newly purchased Victorian home. Neither wishes to be the first to reach out and make amends--until a sobering turn of events forces...