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THOSE WE LOVE MOST

Lee Woodruff

A dramatic debut novel about an accident that changes the lives of everyone involved. For readers of Jodi Picoult.

On a bright June day, Maura Corrigan wakes up happy and secure, with a loving husband, and three healthy, vivacious children. By the end of the day, her entire world will be shattered and everything that she thinks she knows will have changed. In the aftermath of tragedy, the fractures and fissures in both Maura's life and her marriage become all-to-clear to not just her and her husband Pete, but also to her parents, who are grappling with hidden strain within their own marriage. Told through the alternating perspective of these four people over the course of a year, Those We Love Most chronicles how a sudden twist of fate forces them to confront their choices, examine their mistakes, fight for their most valuable relationships, and ultimately find their way back to each other. Brimming with emotional insight and unforgettable characters, Those We Love Most, is a deeply satisfying novel that will find a home with readers of all ages, book clubs, and every lover of well-written contemporary fiction.

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Book Published 2012-09-01 by Hyperion

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In this moving page-turner, debut novelist Woodruff details how two gernerations of the Corrigan family cope in the wake of an unthinkable tragedy.

It grabbed me from the first page… It’s about the pain and guilt a mother faces when her son is hit by a car while riding his bike to school. Add infidelity and complicated family struggles, and I’m thinking it should be a movie!”

Flawless, breathtaking, and oh-so-real, Those We Love Most is a beautifully written book about family, love, betrayal, forgiveness, and how we pick up the pieces in the wake of unthinkable tragedy. When I turned the last page, I found myself missing the characters already. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

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Lee Woodruff has written a beautiful, humorous, poignant page turner about the complexities of love and marriage, tricky family dynamics and the power of the human heart. Everything you want in a great read is here, including wonderful storytelling that builds to a satisfying ending. Loved it.

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Those We Love Most is a poignant, heartwarming story that follows you beyond its pages. Woodruff skillfully makes the Corrigan family real-fallible and vulnerable, ultimately strengthened by the undeniable power of love. I grieved and cheered for them all, and finished the book with a big smile on my face.

It is so heart-wrenchingly real and emotional. The author has given us a family to hold as our own, with all the agony and ecstasy of joy, sorrow, sudden death, alcohol use, intimacy, in-laws, infidelity, sibling rivalry, guilt, illness - you know, the wonders that modern life inflict. Somehow Lee makes us care about this family, a group that keeps surprising, blaming, forgiving themselves. I couldn't put it down.

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I opened Those We Love Most when my plane took off from Boston, and didn't look up again until I landed in Miami. In between, I cried and smiled and nodded, and turned pages faster and faster. It's one of those novels

Can their bonds survive? Woodruff proves herself as a novelist by keeping us turning pages to find out.

One of the surprising things about “Those We Love Most” is that it tells such a difficult human story and is at the same time so entertaining. In just a few sentences, Woodruff can capture the smell and taste of anxiety and the thick listlessness of grief. Yet there are lovely touches of humor in unexpected places, too…Because of their shared tragedy, [Woodruff’s characters] find themselves traveling in unaccustomed directions and connecting with one another in unexpected ways; yet ultimately, in Woodruff’s carefully crafted, compassionate novel, they all make their way home.

Maura's haunting Chagall-like dream is a wonderful touch, as is commentary on seasonal gifts of nature; surely some of this heartfelt, honest novel stems from the author's own real-life journey with her husband, who was severely injured while reporting on the war in Iraq. Overall, this is solid contemporary fiction, sure to please readers who enjoy Sue Monk Kidd and Anna Quindlen.

Those We Love Most is an engrossing story about family fragility, rupture, and redemption. Woodruff's beautiful and unflinching portrayal of the grief, betrayal, guilt, tenacity, and love that engulf this family in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy will keep you turning pages till the end.

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