Husbands & Lovers. A Novel

Two women-separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom-reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. "My favorite kind of page-turner-unputdownable!"-Martha Hall Kelly, author of The Golden DovesNew England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads-her ten-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.
Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory's 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 fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams- one of the world's most beloved singer-songwriters-a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal.
Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself-marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous 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 snared in a game of intrigue between two men .