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My Wife's Affair

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My Wife's Affair

Actress Georgie Connelly is thrilled to leave her stifling suburban existence behind and move to London with
her husband and three young sons. Almost immediately, she lands her dream role, playing 18th century
actress and royal mistress Dora Jordan in a one-woman show. Dora Jordan, a real life figure, was the most
famous stage actress of her time, mistress to the Duke of Clarence (later King William IV of England) and
mother to thirteen beloved children. Dora's story, Shakespeare's Woman, unfolds as a play-within-the-novel,
and as Georgie rehearses her part she feels a growing connection to Dora, whose struggle to combine the
family she loves with work she adores strikes Georgie as remarkably similar to her own.

As the play opens to great acclaim, Georgie also finds herself increasingly drawn to the playwright, Piers Brighstone, and when they leave London for a short run at a countryside theatre, she and Piers begin an affair. The novel is narrated by Georgie's husband Peter, a failed writer turned businessman whose
discovery of the affair leads to harrowing consequences that none of them could possibly foresee. My
Wife's Affair
is about infidelity and its devastating effects on a good marriage, but more than that it is
about the wrenching conflicts one woman must face between work and family, husband and children,
art and life.




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  Someone Else's Child

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Someone Else's Child

When fifteen-year-old Matt and his family move from Oregon to an affluent Connecticut suburb, the fact
that he is home-schooled brands him as an outsider. Just when he has made inroads in the closed social
circuit by befriending a trio of teenage girls, he is responsible for a devastating car crash that leaves two
of the girls dead. The third girl, Tara, isn't in the car with her best friends because she's by her mother
Jennie's bedside as she gives birth to a baby girl. When Jennie reaches out to Matt to try to save him, she
finds herself vilified as well. In the face of community derision, Jennie and Matt find themselves in solidarity, but Jennie must ultimately make a choice between Matt and her own daughter. Someone Else's Child is the deeply moving story of guilt and forgiveness, despair and hope, and the intricacies of love and responsibility.

"Nancy Woodruff's fast, fierce, humblingly resonant first novel has only one flaw: it is impossible to read enough of it. Every sentence glows with truths we keep hidden. Nancy Woodruff is a storyteller of great heart and generosity who tells difficult truths in plain words."
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Most Wanted and The Deep End of the Ocean


 
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Shards

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Shards

As a beautiful, ambitious, and fearless young woman, Allison Moore had everything going for her: She had been the star student of her recruit class and was quickly promoted to vice cop at the Maui Police Department, while earning the respect of her colleagues and a stellar reputation. But when a doomed love affair with another cop led Allison to seek desperate escape, her life took a sudden and violent plunge into meth addiction, deception and brutal victimhood.

Astounding, gripping, and told firsthand in a deeply sympathetic voice, Shards spares no detail of Allison’s horrific experiences and the tangle of addiction and betrayal that cost her the career she loved, the colleagues who adored her, and the island that was once her paradise.

"Honest, introspective. . .harrowing. . .This effect can only be attributed to the strong writing, with Woodruff helping to bring the story to life."
Kirkus Reviews

". . . a brave feat and formidable to grasp."
Publishers Weekly

"Shards is a straight up, gut wrenching account of one woman’s fierce battle with her demons. Honest and moving, it is a testament to ultimately choosing to save your own life, and proof that anything is survivable."
— Wendy Lawless, author of Chanel Bonfire