Life Drawing: A Novel

"This isn’t a love story; it’s the story of a marriage that’s no longer easy. Five years ago, Gus (short for Augusta) had an affair. Her husband, Owen, knows about it and hasn’t moved on. The couple moves to a farmhouse in the country hoping to escape their past, but once there Gus finds she can’t avoid her betrayal and Owen can’t shake his resentment. “It wasn’t our solitude that had shut down so much of our history,” Gus says. “It was our history that had produced our solitude.” Eventually, a new neighbor moves in next door, disrupting that solitude and transforming Life Drawing from an honest portrait of a marriage into a thriller."