Author
Liane Moriarty
Publisher
Penguin Books
Genre
Adult Mystery
Number of Pages
402
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Summary
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something so terrible it would destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive . . .
Cecilia Fitzpatrick achieved it all - she's an incredibly successful business woman, a pillar of her small community and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia - or each other - but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband's devastating secret.
My Review
Although the book started well, I felt like the middle dragged. And there's really no big mystery element here, because mid-way the whole big secret is out before the readers and then it's just a matter of everyone knowing it.
No unexpected plot-twists or whodunnit kind of rhythm to the story, but the characters were well-built and the setting in Australia and the whole Tupperware business was a refreshing change.
Final verdict
I would rather read her other books, especially Big Little Lies.
Who Should Read This
Mystery lovers, who love amazing characters and domestic drama.
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is the Australian author of six internationally best-selling novels, Three Wishes, The Last Anniversary, What Alice Forgot, The Hypnotist's Love Story and the number 1 New York Times bestsellers, The Husband's Secret and Big Little Lies.
Her breakout novel The Husband's Secret sold over three million copies worldwide, was a number 1 UK bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and has been translated into over 40 languages. It spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. CBS Films has acquired the film rights.
- Top Quotes From The Husband's Secret -
“Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky”
“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
“You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
“Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.”
“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.”
“Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.”
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