You Should Have Known
coming soon as The Undoing on HBO and Sky Atlantic
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4.0 • 35 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The inspiration for THE UNDOING -- a major new HBO TV series in 2020
'A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin
A New York Times bestseller
Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on.
But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for herself and her child.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This excellent literary mystery by the author of 2009's Admission unfolds with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. Therapist Grace Reinhart Sachs is about to embark on a publicity blitz to promote her buzzed-about book on why relationships fail, You Should Have Known. In the meantime, she cares for her 12-year-old son, Henry, who attends the same private school she went to as a child. Grace also treasures her loving relationship with her longtime husband Jonathan, a pediatric cancer doctor at a prestigious hospital. The novel's first third offers readers an authoritative glimpse into the busy-but-leisurely lives of private-school moms. Grace does her best to get along with the school's vapid and catty fundraising committee. She eventually learns that one of the mothers outside her social strata, Malaga Alves, was found murdered in her apartment by her young son. Grace, already tense and sad from these events, becomes more and more anxious as Jonathan, at a medical conference in the Midwest, proves unreachable over several days. The author deftly places the reader in Grace's shoes by exploring her isolation, unease, and contempt for the rumor mill. The plot borders on hyperbole when it comes to upending what we know about one character, but that doesn't take much away from this intriguing and beautiful book.
Customer Reviews
Strange ending ...
Was not the ending I was expecting!
You should have known
What a strange book. I've just read the last page and still have ambivalent feelings for the main character who came across as faceless, cold and arrogant. It could have been a suspenseful read but the editor was asleep on the job allowing long, boring paragraph after paragraph of indulgent snooty observations about New York and whatever other ramblings the authors mind drifted off to. If the main character was described as well and was made more sympathetic and if we ever had more insight as to what her husband did and how and where and when and why and/or we had have met him as a character at all instead of boring the reader for half of the 464 pages this could've been ok.
You should have known
Extremely long winded and obvious who the killer is. Should have been edited to cut the story in half and maybe then would have been enjoyable to read.