Elizabeth Edwards to Write New Book About Adversity

Posted on February 5, 2009

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, is writing a second book about her experiences. This time her book will focus on the reemergence of her cancer and how she dealt with the revelations of her husband's affair with Rielle Hunter.

Edwards, wrote a first, well-received memoir "Saving Graces" in 2006 focusing on her battle with breast cancer and the death of her 16-year-old son in a car accident. The new book, "Resilience," will be published in May by Broadway Books, part of the Random House group which is a division of Germany's Bertelsmann AG. Broadway Books said in its catalog that Edwards "shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity."
The catalog also describes Edwards as a woman who "would exhibit (this) remarkable grace and courage again when the very private matter of her husband's infidelity became public fodder." But the description stopped short of saying exactly how detailed Edwards would get when writing about her husband's affair with video producer Rielle Hunter, and a spokesperson for Broadway did not immediately return a request for comment.

Many are wondering how much detail Elizabeth will go into over the affair. John Edwards continues to deny that he is the father of Rielle's baby, although those denials aren't convincing anyone. Other reports say that the Edwards' have been living apart, that Elizabeth kicked John out of the house after he admitted he started up the affair again after he said he had stopped seeing Rielle.