The Birthday Lunch
CBC Books | Posted: April 10, 2017 2:31 PM | Last Updated: August 30, 2018
Joan Clark
Lily's husband and sister do not get along. They are constantly fighting for her affections, and this only gets worse when they all move in together. On Lily's 58th birthday, her sister takes her out to celebrate for lunch and things go terribly, and tragically wrong. A powerful novel about tragedy, truth and relationships. (From Knopf Canada)
From the book
Hal McNab made love to his wife for the last time the morning of the day she was killed. Lily preferred making love in the mornings, in the dreamy space between wakefulness and sleep. Morning or nighttime were one and the same to Hal, but he went along with his wife's preference, though it meant having to wait until Lily stirred before his hands and lips began travelling a body whose terrain he knew by heart, having explored every path, curve and hollow during their thirty-three years of marriage.
From The Birthday Lunch by Joan Clark ©2015. Published by Knopf Canada.