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    The End of an Error

    By Mameve Medwed

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    Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and physical space. But questions of the path not taken start to haunt her after she publishes a memoir of her deliciously eccentric grandmother with whom she traipsed through Europe at eighteen. It was then that Lee fell in love for the first time. Twenty-five years later, "what if" obsessions shake up her settled life. Should she have made a different choice—Simon—instead of the man now next to her? Struck once more by the lingering power of first love, she sets off a chain of events that catapults her back to Europe and to a second chance that she may or may not want to risk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 17, 2009
    ISBN9780061969997
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    Mameve Medwed

    Mameve Medwed is also the author of Mail, Host Family, The End of an Error, and How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life (which received a 2007 Massachusetts Book Honor Award). Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in many publications including the Missouri Review, Redbook, the Boston Globe, Yankee, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Born in Maine, she and her husband have two sons and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      Both husband and wife are authors, one academic and one of memoirs, and they've had a comfortable marriage long enough to have grown children. However, Lee has never gotten over the affair she had in her youth while traveling with her grandmother in England, and writing the memoir of her grandmother has heightened her unresolved feelings. Although the reunion of Lee and her heart-throb seems inevitable, the ending of the book took me by disappointing surprise. The underlying story of the grandmother is a terrific backdrop for the present day issues.
    • 3/5
      There were peaks and valleys in this book. I loved Hanibal Hamlin College..none exists in Maine. Not the best book I ever read and certainly not the worst. Would I buy this again? Yes, I know the author.