Big City Eyes - Tapa blanda

Second novel by the author of ‘Hanging Up’ about a woman’s attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder and motherhood when she moves herself and her teenage son out of Manhattan to what she assumes will be a safer life on Long Island.

In a state of near panic because of the night-time activities of her teenage son Sam, Lily Davis decides to uproot him and herself from Manhattan to a small town on the coast of Long Island. She becomes a reporter for the weekly paper, Sam enrolls in high school, and for a while life proceeds as expected. But then through unexpected and unnerving circumstances, with a cop, in a house where she’s not supposed to be, Lily spies a naked woman asleep on a bed. This is a murder. Or is it? And the cop is married, and Lily is guilt-ridden about her own divorce. Friendship and love relationships unravel or threaten to. But are people and events really as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big city eyes?

'Big City Eyes delves into the scary business of leaving the city for calmer shores. Lily arrives in Sakonnet Bay with her son Sam, to take up a new job on the local paper. What she hasn't bargained for is Sam's girlfriend, a cute cop and a murder. With a moving ending this is a novel worth searching out.' Marie Claire

Delia Ephron brings her own special brand of heart and humour to the story of one woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder and motherhood. Are people and events as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big city eyes?