Alternating through these four intertwined perspectives, Bird in Hand is an exquisitely written, powerful, and thrilling novel about love, friendship and betrayal, and about the secrets we tell ourselves and each other. And who wants nothing more than a baby, or two-exactly the kind of life that Charlie and Alison seem to have.Īs they set out on their individual journeys, Alison, Charlie, Claire, and Ben explore the idea-each in his or her own way-that every moment of loss contains within it the possibility of a new life.
But even in the whirlwind of publication, Claire can’t stop wondering if she should leave her husband, Ben, an ambitious architect who is brilliant, kind, and meticulous. The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date: a captivating story of two very different. Bold where Alison is reserved, vibrant where Alison is cautious, Claire has just had her first novel published, a thinly veiled retelling of her childhood in North Carolina. The only thing Charlie can focus on these days is his secret, sudden affair with Claire, Alison’s best friend. Now she notices everything. And she begins to realize that the life she carefully constructed for herself is as tenuous as a house of cards. When she calls her husband, Charlie, from the police station, his accusatory tone reveals cracks in their relationship she’d never noticed were there. On the drive home from a rare evening out, Alison collides with another car running a stop sign, and-just like that-her life turns upside down.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train and The Exiles comes a novel about the choices we make, how they shape our lives, and how they can change them forever.įour people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: Everything is about to change.
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