Polly Dugan in Conversation With Emily Chenoweth

A long-buried secret. A friendship on the brink. A family forever changed. New York City, 1964. Joan Cavanaugh — a young wife and mother yearning for more — falls into a passionate affair with Peter “Hutch” Hutchinson. When the affair ends, she returns to her marriage, raising three daughters with her devoted husband, Graham. For nearly three decades, she keeps her secret locked away, taking the truth of her daughter Anne’s paternity to her grave when she succumbs to cancer in 1989. Portland, 2014. Carolyn Cavanaugh and Julia Hutchinson are [...]