The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve · first published 1998 · ISBN 9780316789080

Kathryn Lyons receives a phone call at three in the morning: her husband's plane has crashed off the coast of Ireland, and there are no survivors. In the days that follow, as she grieves and arranges the funeral, Kathryn discovers that her husband led a secret life. A woman calls claiming to have been his lover for years. The careful, orderly life Kathryn thought she had built turns out to be an elaborate fiction.