An Accidental Woman

Name: An Accidental Woman
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: Barbara Delinsky
ISBN: 9780743524995

by Barbara Delinsky

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(2 ratings)

544 pages2002Simon & Schuster AudioISBN 9780743524995

Fiction Romance

About this book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Not My Daughter comes the suspenseful follow-up to The Lake News set in a small town rocked by the arrest of a beloved local, where one woman—alongside a handsome journalist—must unravel the truth before secrets from the past destroy everything they hold dear. Picking up where The Lake News left off, the quiet town of Lake Henry, New Hampshire, is thrown into turmoil when longtime resident Heather Malone is abruptly arrested by the FBI. Authorities claim the devoted stepmother and successful businesswoman fled the scene of a fatal accident in California fifteen years earlier. But could someone so deeply woven into the town’s fabric really be living a double life—and hiding such a dark secret? Poppy Blake—Heather’s best friend—doesn’t believe the allegations, nor does virtually anyone in the town. Still, that doesn’t stop a swarm of reporters and TV crews from descending on the town, including the handsome investigative journalist Griffin Hughes, whose attraction to Poppy keeps him coming back to Lake Henry—even though he harbors secrets of his own. Determined to clear Heather’s name, Poppy begins her own search alongside Griffin to uncovering what really happened all those years ago. Together, they may be the key not only to Heather’s fate, but also to helping Poppy face her past and envision a future she never believed she could have.

Publication Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 2002
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9780743524995
Language: en

About Barbara Delinsky

Barbara Ruth Greenberg was born on August 9, 1945, in Newton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where she raised in a family of lawyers. Her mother died of breast cancer, when she was eight, it was the defining event of a childhood that was otherwise ordinary. She took piano lessons and flute lessons. She took ballroom dancing lessons. She went to summer camp through her fifteenth year (in Maine, which explains the setting of so many of her stories), then spent her sixteenth summer learning to type and to drive (two skills that have served her better than all of her other high school courses combined). In 1967, she earned a B.A. in psychology at Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology at Boston College in 1969. The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed. Her husband, Steve Delinsky, was just starting law school and they needed the money. Following graduate school, she was a researcher for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After the birth of her first child, Andrew, she took a job as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald newspaper, and later for the Boston Herald. She also filled her time doing volunteer work at hospitals, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and their Women's Cancer Advisory Board. Barbara's career in writing began in 1980, after having a pair of twins, Eric and Jeremy, when she read a newspaper article about romance fiction. She researched the field, read 40 to 50 category romances and sat down to begin her own. She found that her background in psychology was helpful in "planning the emotional entanglements of (her) characters," and claims that she has "pulled on virtually every aspect of (her) background and of (her) life experience in general (in her writing)." Barbara Delinsky is nothing if not prolific. Since 1980, she has written well over 80 novels, and shows no sign of slowing down. She began signing her novels