THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF NINA FINDLAY

What happens when you can't see that the man you married is actually the one you love?

For 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. Andrea Gillies lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her debut book was the memoir Keeper: One House, Three Generations, and a Journey into Alzheimer's (Broadway, 2010), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and the Orwell Prize. Her first novel, The White Lie (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner), was published to critical acclaim in 2012. The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is her second novel. Praise for The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay “ [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 Rat and The Furies “ Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches.” — Sunday Times (UK) “[The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay] moves backward and forward across several decades, uncovering intergenerational secrets and the holes in the stories people tell themselves.” — The Guardian (UK) “ Funny and wise . . . not to be missed.” — Good Housekeeping (UK) “ An intelligent, thoughtful, grown-up romance about second chances and the complications of relationships.” — The Herald (Scotland) “ Romance is everywhere, there is love — filial, parental, platonic, amorous — and flirting and coupling and unraveling. But The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is not chick lit. There's a provocative intelligence in Gillies's tale that challenges perceptions and beliefs about love, honesty, and betrayal.” — Bookanista