Lunch and Lit with Rachel Beanland

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. If you love Beatriz Williams and Kristin Harmel, you do not want to miss Lunch & Lit with Rachel Beanland for The Half Life! REVIEWS: “A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it.”—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country “The Half Life is a page-turner. Historical in setting, but contemporary in emotional terrain, I felt immersed in the landscape of La Maddalena and in the lives of these characters from the very first page.”—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes “I can’t remember the last time I was as fully immersed in a book as I was in Rachel Beanland’s forthcoming novel, The Half Life; an effortlessly readable story of a young Navy wife’s journey… View Source