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SPITZER SCANDAL HAS PARALLELS IN HUDSON VALLEY ROMANCE AUTHOR’S NOVEL
Added: (Wed Mar 12 2008)
Life seems to be imitating art in one New York author’s latest novel, Lost in Paradise. This contemporary romance, written by teacher and novelist Allie Boniface, explores what happens when a prominent politician falls from grace and his wife and three daughters must pick up the pieces. Boniface admits that the similarities between her novel and the Eliot Spitzer debacle, while coincidental, are uncanny.
“I did not base this story on any one person or event,” Boniface says, “but I did deliberately choose to examine what happens to a favored family when faced with heart-breaking scandal. The entire story is driven by the choices the heroine makes in the fallout of her father’s arrest.”
Boniface notes that the characters in her story do find happiness and forgiveness by the novel’s end. However, she also points out that while the love story is a central focus in Lost in Paradise, so too are “the issues of how we create identity for ourselves, how we move on from the secrets in our past, and what details we choose to reveal to others.” The questions facing the main characters of Lost in Paradise, she asserts, will inevitably face the Spitzer family as well.
Reviewers have praised Lost in Paradise, calling it “…well written, with well developed characters…[This novel] explores more than living life, but figuring out what one actually wants out of it…” (Long and Short Reviews)
Lost in Paradise is currently available in ebook format from The Wild Rose Press (www.thewildrosepress.com). It will also be released in print, in May 2008 (ISBN # 1-60154-183-X).