The Husband's Secret
The hit novel that launched the author of BIG LITTLE LIES
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- 8,99 €
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- 8,99 €
Publisher Description
She finds an envelope: 'To be opened in the event of my death'. It's her husband's handwriting. But he's still alive . . .
THE ENTHRALLING STORY OF SECRETS, FAMILY AND THE DANGER OF THE TRUTH
'STAGGERINGLY BRILLIANT' Sophie Hannah
'ANOTHER MASTERCLASS' Grazia
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Cecilia Fitzpatrick thought she knew her husband.
That is until she finds an envelope with his writing on: 'to be opened in the event of my death'.
She opens it, and learns a shocking truth he has never dared reveal.
Now Cecilia faces a terrible choice.
Because revealing her husband's secret will hurt those she loves the most . . .
But could the consequences of staying silent be worse?
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'Finely wrought tension holds up until the final page' TELEGRAPH
'A tense, page-turning story which gradually draws everyone together in a devastating climax' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Dark and compelling . . . a must read' SUN
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Australian author Moriarty, in her fifth novel (after The Hypnotist's Love Story), puts three women in an impossible situation and doesn't cut them any slack. Cecilia Fitzpatrick lives to be perfect: a perfect marriage, three perfect daughters, and a perfectly organized life. Then she finds a letter from her husband, John-Paul, to be opened only in the event of his death. She opens it anyway, and everything she believed is thrown into doubt. Meanwhile, Tess O'Leary's husband, Will, and her cousin and best friend, Felicity, confess they've fallen in love, so Tess takes her young son, Liam, and goes to Sydney to live with her mother. There she meets up with an old boyfriend, Connor Whitby, while enrolling Liam in St. Angela's Primary School, where Cecilia is the star mother. Rachel Crowley, the school secretary, believes that Connor, St. Angela's PE teacher, is the man who, nearly three decades before, got away with murdering her daughter a daughter for whom she is still grieving. Simultaneously a page-turner and a book one has to put down occasionally to think about and absorb, Moriarty's novel challenges the reader as well as her characters, but in the best possible way.
