After the Fall

by Ladd, Kylie

• ISBN13: 9780385532815
• ISBN10: 0385532814
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Doubleday

Summary

That's the thing about falling. It doesn't go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well.... plunge, plummet, pain. Even if you get straight back up, even when you regain your footing, after the fall nothing is ever quite the same. Neuropsychologist Kylie Ladd makes her fiction debut with the most fully realized exploration of adultery in recent years. A captivating blend of psychological insight, raw emotion, and rare wisdom courses through this enthralling tale of two marriages brought together by friendship-and the illicit affair that blows their worlds apart. "I had been married three years when I fell in love", begins Kate, a firecracker of a woman who thought shed found the yin to her yang in Cary, her sensible and adoring husband. Until the night she shares an unexpected (and unexpectedly public) kiss with their married friend Luke, marking the beginning of a fiery romance that will tear the foursome apart and shake the core of their most intimate hopes and fears. After the Fallpeers into the souls of two young, devoted couples betrayed by the one thing they thought was secure and faultless: their friendship. Told in a kaleidoscope of first-person voices, this is an unsettling, morally complex read about the secret longings we all harbor and what happens when the unexpected becomes inevitable.

Author Biography

KYLIE LADD’s writings have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Reader’s Digest and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. She holds a Ph.D. in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.  After the Fall is her first novel.