Three masterful tales of women in the grips of complicated and dangerous lovesThe Rest of Life is comprised of three spellbinding novellas about women in love. In Immaculate Man, an agnostic New York divorcee finds herself in thrall to an unexpected passion for a Catholic priestwho is also desired by a former superiorand who becomes unmoored by the affair. Living at Home is set in London, and depicts the strange union between an English womana thrice-divorced doctor who works with autistic childrenand an Italian mana free-roaming journalist addicted to high-risk assignments. The title novella centers on the memories of an elderly Italian woman, recalling her days as a girl in the bloom of first love, who embarked on a suicide pact with her boyfriend, but was the only one not to follow through.
