Forgotten Waltz

Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction"e;A tour de force."e;Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review"e;A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other womanGina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT workerThe Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticityThis novels beauty lies in Enrights spare, poetic, off-kilter proseat once heartbreaking and subversively funny. Its built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers whove ever lived."e; Elle