The Pilot's Wife

The Pilot’s Wife

by Anita Shreve

When Kathryn Lyon receives the dreaded late-night knock on her door, she realizes the "worst" has happened - the plane piloted by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland.

As reporters gather outside her home and the airlines sends their investigators to question her about her husband's life, she begins to realize there is much she really never knew about him. This is the most exciting thing you will read within the first 150 pages.

Around page 150 Kathryn decides to call a number found in one of Jack's pockets, and at page 200, she decides to fly with Robert (the lead investigator) to London to find the person who answered the phone. While Robert seems overly interested in Kathryn while she's in the midst of her grief, he does not go with her to confront the person on the other end of the phone. Instead, after she's run from the apartment into the pouring rain without an umbrella and walked the streets for hours, he tries to rescue her. The final answers come the next morning at breakfast when she and Robert are joined by the woman she visited the day before (around page 253).

The story is sad, boring and unrealistic. This is the slowest book I've ever read and I have no idea how it ended up as an Oprah's Book Club book. I would give this book one star just for having a lot of words.