What happens when you can't see that the man you married is actually the one you love?
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.
"In her disturbing and...tantalizing second novel, Andrea
Gillies...plumbs the heart of marital infidelity. In the world of
this novel, we betray our spouses simply by withholding the best of
ourselves, by saving it for another." —The New York Times
Book Review
"Elegantly told in flashbacks and up-close observations, Nina's
story of adult romance is illuminating, redemptive, and hot as all
get-out." —The Oprah Magazine
"Gillies’s brisk, confident style deftly manages convoluted jumps
in time, and small gems of insight glitter among her clean, precise
prose...This sure-handed, lovely exploration of the human heart is
certain to build Gillies’s audience." —Publishers Weekly
"In her second novel, Gillies explores...the fallibility of memory
and the often heartbreaking half-truths we tell ourselves by way of
compensation." —Kirkus Reviews
“Gillies is a skilled writer, painting the scene of Nina’s Greek
getaway with cleanly evocative prose.” —The Huffington
Post
"Gillies offers a lot of food for thought about love, memory, and
the lies we tell ourselves." —Booklist
"Riveting." —Library Journal
“A rich, intricate, utterly convincing portrait of one woman's
midlife meltdown.” —Lisa Zeidner, author
of Layover and Love Bomb
“This mesmerizing, intelligent work overturns traditional
assumptions about love, family, and loss and delivers a series of
twists that are as unexpected as they are richly satisfying.”
—Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Birds of Paradise
"The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is at once lyrical and
riveting. Unfolding on a radiant Greek Island, with darker echoes
of Scotland and Norway, this lushly transporting, thoughtful novel
moves through overlapping time periods in an intricate series of
themes and variations. Despite its graceful cadence, it courses
with suspense; Andrea Gillies has given us something rare, an
exquisite page-turner." —Hilary Reyl, author of Lessons
in French
“The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is 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)
“Winner of the Orwell and Wellcome prizes for her first book,
Keeper, Gillies combines a wonderfully unreliable narrator with a
deeply layered love story.” —Scottish Book Trust
“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
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