The Divorce Papers

When a prominent New England law firm's most important client insists his daughter gets representation for her divorce, the task falls to Sophie Diehl, a criminal attorney with a strong aversion to face-to-face contact, who has never handled a family law matter. Her client Mia Durkheim wants to fight for custody of her ten-year-old daughter and take her eminent physician husband down a peg in the process. Susan Rieger tells the entire story through letters, emails, legal documents, and office memos.

The large cast of narrators, including Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Kathe Mazur, and many others, gives this epistolary novel exactly what it needs: distinct voices for each correspondent. The format is genuinely theatrical, each document performed by a different actor, so the audiobook becomes something between a radio drama and a novel. The ensemble approach rewards close listening as the gap between what characters say to each other and what they reveal in private communications becomes the story's true subject.