The Pilot's Wife

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name = The Pilot's Wife
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author = Anita Shreve
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Little, Brown
release_date = May 1998
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 293 pp (hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-316-78908-9 (hardback edition)
preceded_by = Sea Glass
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"The Pilot's Wife : A Novel" is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. It is preceded by "Fortune's Rocks" and "Sea Glass".

The novel was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for March of 1999.

Plot summary

The novel is about Kathryn Lyons, whose husband, Jack Lyons dies in a plane crash over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Malin Head, Ireland. As she and her daughter Mattie try to cope with this sudden loss, she finds herself bombarded by the press. While she and the airlines try to find the reason for the crash, she slowly unravels a series of secrets her husband has kept from her until she realizes that he lived a double life she never knew about.

Adaptation

The novel was adapted into a made-for-TV movie in 2002. It was directed by Robert Markowitz and stars Christine Lahti and Campbell Scott.

External links

* [http://www.oprah.com/obc/pastbooks/anita_shreve/obc_pb_19990331.jhtml;jsessionid=G3LKSTVEZMXQXLARAYFSFEQ The book's page on Oprah's Book Club website]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289390 IMDB listing of TV movie]