From Amazon.com:
Oprah Book Club Selection, March 1999: With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:
Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious on-lookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.
The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realize that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off.

Product Description:
Being married to a pilot means you have to be a bit of a fatalist, but nothing has prepared Kathryn Lyons for the news of her husband's fatal crash. Even before the plane is located off the Irish coast, a callous media turns her personal life inside out. As Kathryn struggles with rage and grief, a bizarre mystery swims into focus: Who was this man she loved, and what lay behind the life she took for granted. She is determined to find the truth, even though she knows it isn't going to be pretty. Anita Shreve is the author of THE WEIGHT OF WATER and other acclaimed novels. She lives in western Massachusetts.

I picked this up in a charity shop. It's one of those books I've heard a lot about and I'm looking forward to reading it.

I haven't read this yet but it's time for the book to continue its journey. I look forward to seeing what future readers think and perhaps I'll read this, or another book by Anita Shreve, another time.

I'll take this to the BookCrossing meetup next week.

Caught at the London meetup. I'm not sure if I've read any of this author's books before, but having read the blurb on the back cover I couldn't leave it there.

I read this book in one sitting on Sunday afternoon. It drops you right into the drama from the very start and just keeps going as poor Kathryn has to deal with the sudden loss of her pilot husband, her daughter and grandmother's reactions to the news, the mysterious pilot's union man who appears to break the news and then never seems to leave her side, and then the surprising news that her husband had a whole other life that she knew nothing whatsoever about.
This book is coming to the London 2008 Convention this weekend

I picked this up at the book buffet and read it during the last week.

I had no idea what to expect from this book and was first a little wary that it would be "only" about the pilot's wife's grief. The writing turned out to be so good, though, that I wouldn't actually have minded that. On top of that, it also turned into a real mystery.

I liked the writing style of this book and how well the scenes from the present and the memories work together.

A note on the side: Once flight/airport security was mentioned I checked the book's publication date, because I couldn't believe the book could have been written after 2001.

I will either release this book at the OBCZ at he English Cinema or bring it along to the next meetup.

Snapped this up tonight in Cafe Merkur.

I enjoyed this.
Perhaps more so because its the first book I've been able to finish sooo quickly in a very long time!
ETA
What I'd written b4 didnt make any sense!!
Passing on to blondgeek47 tomorrow

whoops.....its been lurking in a bag and hasnt made it to blondgeek47 yet

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

slowly making its way out of the flat!