The Marriage Audit

A novel of one day, twelve questions, and the silences that nearly unraveled a marriage.

Sophia and Beau LeBlanc built their life on quiet rituals—shared calendars, polite restraint, and ambition carried side by side. But after years of distance and a grief neither can name, they arrive at a counselor’s office on Magazine Street—divorce papers unsigned, facing one last question:

Is there anything left to save?

What follows is a single day. Twelve questions. Two people finally saying everything they never dared—about love, betrayal, memory, regret, and the fragile threads holding a life together.

Told in alternating perspectives and memory-rich interludes, The Marriage Audit carries the lyrical intimacy of Normal People and the raw emotional honesty of Marriage Story. It’s an unflinching portrait of a modern marriage at its breaking point—and what it costs to tell the truth after silence has done its damage.

This isn’t a love story.

It’s a story about love—how it falters, how it endures, and how it must be chosen again.

For readers who love:

✔ Emotionally layered literary fiction

✔ Relationship-driven stories with deep interiority

✔ Themes of grief, memory, infidelity, and quiet resilience

✔ The intimate realism of Mary Beth Keane, Claire Lombardo, and Dani Shapiro