{"product_id":"the-enlightenment-of-nina-findlay-isbn-9781590517291","title":"The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when you can’t see that the man you married is actually the one you love?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with whom she was always in love and who remained her best friend throughout her marriage. Now Nina faces the future alone—estranged from Luca and separated from Paolo, she escapes to the tiny Greek island where she honeymooned twenty-five years earlier. After an accident she finds herself in the hospital telling her life story to an eagerly attentive doctor. As their conversations unfold she comes to understand the twists and turns of her romantic life and the unconscious influence of her parents’ marriage on her own.\"In her disturbing and...tantalizing second novel, Andrea Gillies...plumbs the heart of marital infidelity. In the world of this novel, we betray our spouses simply by withholding the best of ourselves, by saving it for another.\"  \u003ci\u003e—The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegantly told in flashbacks and up-close observations, Nina's story of adult romance is illuminating, redemptive, and hot as all get-out.\" \u003ci\u003e—The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gillies’s brisk, confident style deftly manages convoluted jumps in time, and small gems of insight glitter among her clean, precise prose...This sure-handed, lovely exploration of the human heart is certain to build Gillies’s audience.\" \u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her second novel, Gillies explores...the fallibility of memory and the often heartbreaking half-truths we tell ourselves by way of compensation.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gillies is a skilled writer, painting the scene of Nina’s Greek getaway with cleanly evocative prose.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gillies offers a lot of food for thought about love, memory, and the lies we tell ourselves.\" —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riveting.\" —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A rich, intricate, utterly convincing portrait of one woman's midlife meltdown.” —Lisa Zeidner, author of \u003ci\u003eLayover\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove Bomb\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This mesmerizing, intelligent work overturns traditional assumptions about love, family, and loss and delivers a series of twists that are as unexpected as they are richly satisfying.” —Diana Abu-Jaber, author of \u003ci\u003eBirds of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Nina Findlay\u003c\/i\u003e is at once lyrical and riveting. Unfolding on a radiant Greek Island, with darker echoes of Scotland and Norway, this lushly transporting, thoughtful novel moves through overlapping time periods in an intricate series of themes and variations. Despite its graceful cadence, it courses with suspense; Andrea Gillies has given us something rare, an exquisite page-turner.\" —Hilary Reyl, author of \u003ci\u003eLessons in French\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Nina Findlay\u003c\/i\u003e is a sure, poised, relentlessly honest novel that carries the reader through multiple layers of deception and revelation, showing us the hidden heartbreak in families and marriage.” —Fernanda Eberstadt, author of \u003ci\u003eRat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Furies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches.”  —\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e(UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[\u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Nina Findlay\u003c\/i\u003e] moves backward and forward across several decades, uncovering intergenerational secrets and the holes in the stories people tell themselves.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Funny and wise . . . not to be missed.” —\u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An intelligent, thoughtful, grown-up romance about second chances and the complications of relationships.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Herald \u003c\/i\u003e(Scotland) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Winner of the Orwell and Wellcome prizes for her first book, \u003ci\u003eKeeper\u003c\/i\u003e, Gillies combines a wonderfully unreliable narrator with a deeply layered love story.” —\u003ci\u003eScottish Book Trust\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Romance is everywhere, there is love—filial, parental, platonic, amorous—and flirting and coupling and unraveling. But \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Nina Findlay\u003c\/i\u003e is not chick lit. There’s a provocative intelligence in Gillies’s tale that challenges perceptions and beliefs about love, honesty, and betrayal.” —\u003ci\u003eBookanista\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Gillies\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her debut book was the memoir \u003ci\u003eKeeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer’s\u003c\/i\u003e (Broadway, 2010), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and the Orwell Prize. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe White Lie\u003c\/i\u003e (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\/Mariner), was published to critical acclaim in 2012. \u003ci\u003eThe Enlightenment of Nina Findlay\u003c\/i\u003e is her second novel.Their main courses arrived, and Luca ordered more wine, and they ate and talked about other things. Nina steered the conversation elsewhere, into their respective trips and what they’d seen and eaten. But when the plates were taken, Luca reverted. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Promise me one thing. If ever you decide you need a divorce, you think of me first.” He thought he saw in her eyes that she took him seriously. What else could it be, that strange intense look in them? He went on, “But you’re right, of course you’re right. Our marriage is only perfect because it never happened. We haven’t had to deal with dishwashers and bills and recycling and dull sex.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dull, is it? That’s a shame.” The back of her neck felt as if it was seizing up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Francesca lost interest years ago. Even before she got ill. The cancer has been a big sex drought, and now she’s losing interest in me in general, I think.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Oh I see, you’re in need of a \u003ci\u003ecinq à sept\u003c\/i\u003e.” It wasn’t possible to smile. “On the way home from the office.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I think the French are an enlightened nation. Shall we say five o’clock tomorrow? But I’m getting on a bit. I may not need two hours.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe hid her disappointment in him in checking her phone. “A quickie on the way home. Lovely.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s these little adjustments in life that make it tolerable.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’m glad I know that you’re joking.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuca could have joined her there. 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