Lover

Kate―a wife a mother of two and a senior executive at a multinational hotel company―has made caring for others her life’s work and she’s good at it. But when she opens her husband’s computer to find a series of email exchanges with an unknown woman it all begins to fall apart. After ten years of marriage Kate is forced to take a closer look at her relationship with her husband and she must ask herself: How well do I really know him?Things begin to spiral at work too with the political machinations in the office reaching an increasingly Shakespearean level of drama and ferocity. Kate gets caught between the ravings of power-hungry bosses and her job which is to make the hotel guests happy. With both her work and home lives crumbling around her Kate for the first time begins to think about what it is she really wants: from her husband from her job from her life.Lover the British writer Anna Raverat’s U.S. debut is an observation of love work and life as seen through the lens of a troubled marriage. Raverat paints an acute portrait of the female psyche freshly exploring intimacy and the politics of work. Intellectually rich and captivatingly poignant Lover is the powerful story of a woman making her way in the world.