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“Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively’s masterpiece opens with a snapshot: Kath, before her death, at an unknown gathering, holding hands with a man who is not her husband. The photograph is in an envelope marked ‘DON’T OPEN–DESTROY.’ But Kath’s husband does not heed the warning, embarking on a journey of discovery that reveals a tight web of secrets–within marriages, between sisters, and at the heart of an affair. Kath, with her mesmerizing looks and casual ways, moves like a ghost through the memories of everyone who knew her–and a portrait emerges of a woman whose life cannot be understood without plumbing the emotional depths of the people she touched.”

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