The Half-Life of Secrets

Note: This book was previously sold under the title: Quiet Sins. ... "There are things about the book that remind me of Margaret Edson's amazing play WIT, about a college professor dying of ovarian cancer (it was made into a film for HBO with Emma Thopson); there's something of the same stoicism and grim humor in Childhouse's Olivia." Judge's commentary from Writer's Digest "This thought-provoking story of a woman reviewing her life as she faces her last days is a riveting page-turner that never