Ay, William

Unexpectedly, Lucy Barton becomes a confidant and supporter of William, her ex-husband, the man with whom she has had two adult daughters, but who is now almost a stranger prey to night terrors and determined to reveal his mother's secret. As his new marriage falters, William wants Lucy to accompany him on a journey from which he will never be the same. How many feelings -jealousy, pity, fear, tenderness, disappointment, strangeness- fit into a marriage, even when it has ended -if such a thing is possible-? And at the center of this story, the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, her deep and perennial reflection on our very existence: "This is how life works. Everything we don't know until it's too late."