A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
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4.0 • 81 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A woman discovers her marriage is built on an illusion in this harrowing and ultimately inspiring memoir.
“Be forewarned: You won’t sleep until you finish the last page.”—Caroline Leavitt, author of Cruel Beautiful World
One night. One email. Two realities...
Before: Jen Waite has met the partner of her dreams. A handsome, loving man who becomes part of her family, evolving into her husband, her best friend, and the father of her infant daughter.
After: A disturbing email sparks suspicion, leading to an investigation of who this man really is and what was really happening in their marriage.
In alternating Before and After chapters, Waite obsessively analyzes her relationship, trying to find a single moment form the past five years that isn't part of the long con of lies and manipulation. Instead, she finds more lies, infidelity, and betrayal than she could have imagined. With the pacing and twists of a psychological thriller, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing looks at how a fairy tale can become a nightmare and what happens when “it could never happen to me” actually does.
Customer Reviews
Misleading publisher description
Although my heart goes out to Jen and what she went through, I thought this story was going to give me some twists and turns like Big, Little, Lies as the publisher described. It's about a woman who fell in love, got married, and had a baby all the while her husband was cheating on her. She uncovers his lies through email, texts, and phone records. She diagnosed him as a psychopath because he never owned up to what he did nor apologized. According to Dr. Google (the tool she used to diagnose him), he was deemed a psychopath. I mean really!!!! That's the book! Not at all what was sold by the publisher....very misleading. The husband is a big d-bag! But I felt ripped off by the publisher because the story was not at all what it was described to be!