I would love to welcome Emily Listfield to Planet Books and congratulate her on the release of her brand new novel, Best Intentions, available in stores Tuesday, May 5th. Emily has written a guest post for Planet Books’ readers and shares some insight into what is happening in Best Intentions. She also asks a pretty interesting question so read on to find out and enter to win a copy of Best Intentions.
What would you do if you if these clues began to pile up?
In Best Intentions, the narrator, Lisa, has been married to Sam for fifteen years. They met in a college and now, both 39, they have two daughters they love dearly. But their marriage is going through a down period. “Sam has seemed restive for reasons I can’t quite place,” Lisa says. “It has grown contagious, a malaise that has metastasized between us into a desultory low-level dissatisfaction, nothing I can touch, nothing worthy of accusation or argument, and yet.” Slowly she begins so suspect he is having affair. Here are the clues:
1. Sam tells Lisa he will be working late but she when she listens to a message on his cell phone, she hears a woman’s voice, soft and intimate, saying, “I’m going to be a little late tonight. Can we make it six-thirty? Same place.”
2. Later that same night, she hears him whispering into the phone: “I just couldn’t do it. Not tonight.”
3. Sam, a business journalist, tells Lisa he is going to Chicago to interview a source for a story. But when Lisa calls his office, she finds out the story was killed weeks ago.
4. When Lisa confronts Sam and asks if he is having an affair, he denies it. In fact, he has a perfectly reasonable explanation for everything.
5. But then Lisa discovers photographs of Sam with another woman (you’ll have to read the book to find out who) and suddenly it seems like a game change.
So here’s the question: Lisa loves Sam and they have two young children she wants to protect. She’s known him most of her life – and he’s never lied to her before. She doesn’t have absolute proof and she’s worried that if she confronts him she will lose everything. And yet…. What would you do? Weigh in. But while you’re thinking up your answer, ask yourself this, too: How well do you really know the people you love?
Emily
www.emilylistfield.com
Emily Listfield and her publisher, Atria, is providing a copy of Best Intentions for a giveaway here at Planet Books. To enter to win, weigh in on Emily’s question, “Lisa loves Sam and they have two young children she wants to protect. She’s known him most of her life – and he’s never lied to her before. She doesn’t have absolute proof and she’s worried that if she confronts him she will lose everything. And yet…. What would you do? Weigh in. But while you’re thinking up your answer, ask yourself this, too: How well do you really know the people you love?” The giveaway will commence on Sunday, May 10th at Midnight EST.
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