The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press The book opens on a

The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978

Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls

Except this time

urgent prose

The Half Life: A Novel Penguin Press The book opens on aFrom the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wifes reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. A captivating, whip smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it. Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country When twenty three year old Eileen OMalley meets charismatic