The Life Room

Eleanor Cahn, a professor of literature, wife of a preeminent surgeon, and devoted mother of two, is in Paris to present a paper on Anna Karenina. A chance encounter brings to the surface passions she has suppressed for years. As The Life Room unfolds, we learn the secrets of her erotic past: ethereal William, her high school boyfriend; her role as muse to troubled painter Adam; her marriage to loyal, steady Michael. On her return to New York, Eleanor's charged attraction to another man takes on a life of its own, threatening to destroy everything she has.  Jill Bialosky has created a fresh, piercingly real heroine who must choose between responsibility and desire.  |

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE LIFE ROOM

"Jill Bialosky pierces the heart here until the reader feels just exactly what it means to have it all—husband, children, success—and yet to be achingly alone, longing for passion, of the kind Anna Karenina sacrificed everything for. Through Bialosky’s elegant prose and tremendous talents as a storyteller, desire reverberates across the pages to meet the reader’s own."— MARTHA McPHEE