However, in part two, which is a 20-year flash back to Emma’s (Emily) younger days, we learn more about what she went through, and why she hid things. I will say that the first third of the book was slow, with details that we didn’t understand, until closer to the end. When he starts looking in their house for papers that may give him clues, Emma notices the Leo is searching for papers, and worries that everything she hid of her past is slowly falling apart.

Even though the results of her blood work were positive, and happy news he starts investigating things Emma has told him about her life before they married, and learns quickly that she has lied about many things over the years, including her real name. At work, Leo secretly begins to do a draft of Emma’s stock obituary as a tribute, knowing he must face her mortality which was his therapeutic way of dealing with her possible death.Īs Leo delves into her life, he begins to find things in the past that do not add up. Emma has lymphoma, and is waiting to see the results after her treatments were completed. This story revolves around Emma, our heroine, who is a marine biologist she is happily married to Leo, our hero, who is an obituary writer and they have a baby girl, Ruby. The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh is a standalone novel. When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was.īut first, she must tell him about the love of her other life. As Leo starts to unravel the truth about the stranger in his bed, Emma’s old life breaks out of the carefully cultivated shell she created, threatening to wash away everything she has worked so hard to build. That’s when he finds that the woman he thinks he knows doesn’t really exist.

īecause of Emma’s preeminence in her field, Leo is asked to write his own wife’s obituary while she is still alive. In fact, everything would be just perfect if Emma was who she said she was.

Leo was adopted as a baby, and this noisy, joyous little family is the first place he has ever felt he belongs. They are happy, crammed into the tiny house her grandmother left her. Now Emma, a marine biologist, has her perfect little ecosystem. Seven years later came Ruby, their daughter, and then John Keats, their rescue dog. But then she met an obituary writer, Leo, and within months, they were engaged.

The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh – a ReviewĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / Google Play / Apple / BAM / Book DepositoryĮmma was quite certain she’d never fall in love again.

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