Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of Devil Wears Prada 'Richman, once again finds inspiration in art, adding evocative details to a swiftly moving plot.

The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book. PRAISE & REVIEWS I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust-both fiction and non-fiction-and to me, The Lost Wife is one of the best. The Lost Wife is a story that explores the depth - the power - of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.

Each character must forge their own path for survival and each must struggle to adapt to post-war America, while their secrets, their past, and the ghost of their first marriage, are known only to them. From the glamorous ease of pre-war Prague, to the ensuing horror of Nazi Europe, we witness both the dawning of Lenka’s and Josef’s love affair to its tragic unraveling. As we follow Lenka’s journey to the ghetto of Terezin, where she is forced to draft technical drawings for the Germans and is a witness to the secret paintings of an underground group of artists involved in their own form of resistance against their captors, we see not only the endurance of the human spirit, but also of the artist, whose desire to create and document, cannot be extinguished. Lenka, who he believes died during the war, continues to haunt his dreams, while his second wife, Amalia, remains more of a ghost to him than is Lenka. She currently lives with her husband and two children on Long Island, New York.THE LOST WIFE Josef Kohn is a successful New York obstetrician who still dreams of his first wife, Lenka, an art student he left behind in Czechoslovakia while fleeing the Nazis.

Richman graduated from Wellesley College in 1994 and received a Thomas J. Her novels have been published in more than 15 languages and have received both national and international acclaim. Alyson Richman is an American writer best known for The Lost Wife, a tale of a husband and wife who are separated in a concentration camp during World War II and reunited 60 years later at their grandchildren's wedding.

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman