‘Husbands & Lovers’ author to sign books July 3
Author Beatriz Williams will sign copies of her latest book, "Husbands & Lovers," from 3 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, July 3, at Browseabout Books, 133 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach.
This novel tells the story of two women, separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom, who reclaim family secrets and lost loves. In 2019 New England, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads – her 10-year-old son Sam had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Three years later, in a search for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory is forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance 14 years earlier with her childhood best friend Monk Adams, now one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters – a fairytale cut short by an agonizing betrayal.
After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself in 1951, married to a wealthy British diplomat in Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah's longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself drawn into a game of intrigue between two men ... and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations.
Williams gives voice to deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues of privilege, class and the female experience inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.
