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Wally Lamb has a new novel out called The Hour I First Believed. I'm going to have to grab a copy of this one, I loved his first two novels, 'She's Come Undone' and 'I Know This Much Is True'.


She's Come Undone is one of the few novels, I re-read. It was such a wonderful book, very moving.

She's Come Undone explores a feisty young woman's journey through her suburban New England existence. A preteen Dolores Price comes from a broken home and turns to food and television for comfort after being the victim of rape at age 13. By the age of 17 she has eaten her way to clinical obesity. Following the death of her mother and being ostracized at college, she attempts suicide and is placed in a mental institution for several years. There she loses 100+ pounds and analyzes her anger with her parents. After being released she makes the bold move to Vermont following a few of what she sees as lighter spots in her younger life.


This novel has many themes, the main one being emotional liberation and self discovery

'I Know This Much Is True' was about identical twins Dominick and Thomas, one of whom suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Dominick struggles with the guilt of being the normal twin. He also learns some long kept family secrets.

In his new novel, The Hour I First Believed, Lamb travels well beyond his earlier work and embodies in his fiction myth, psychology, family history stretching back many generations, and the questions of faith that lie at the heart of everyday life. The result is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.

I'll keep an eye out for The Hour I First Believed. Have you read Wally Lamb? Do you plan to?