The Wife Between Us
A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Shocking Romantic Thriller
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Publisher Description
'Gobsmacking' – Daily Mail
'Masterful' – Karin Slaughter
'You won't be able to put this one down' – Glamour
A Richard and Judy Book Club Bestseller
Shocking and psychological, The Wife Between Us is a twisting, pulse-pounding thriller about the disturbing secrets hidden in an ordinary marriage . . .
Marrying a man with a past was always going to come with problems – but you never expect to become the focus of another woman’s obsession.
Nellie just wanted to live the life she’d always dreamed about with Richard. But who is his ex-wife, Vanessa?
Nellie thinks she knows everything about his previous marriage. That it was a disaster, plain and simple. But, as secrets are unearthed, she starts to think that maybe there is more to the wife before her . . .
Only one thing is certain. She is not who you think she is.
From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, the authors behind The Golden Couple.
'Fiendishly clever' – Anita Shreve, bestselling author of The Stars are Fire
Readers love The Wife Between Us:
'An absolute page turner'
'I was gripped straight away'
'Just when you think nothing else can surprise you the book takes another turn'
'I read it in less than a day and didn’t want it to end!'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It sounds like a well-trodden literary path: a jilted, jealous wife falls apart as she obsesses over her ex-husband’s new and predictably youthful fiancée. But Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen have no business with cliché here. They spring clever surprises on every other page, as Vanessa, her younger model Nellie and husband Richard quickly reveal themselves to be multi-dimensional, deliciously untrustworthy characters very different to how we initially suspect. And a tip: don’t stop reading before the epilogue.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hendricks, who spent more than 20 years as a book editor, joins forces with Pekkanen (The Best of Us) to create a jaw-dropping psychological thriller. Unreliable narrator Vanessa Thompson is obsessed with her ex-husband's fianc e and on the verge of becoming unhinged. She gave up everything to have a fairy tale life in Westchester with too-good-to-be-true hedge fund manager Richard. After a series of failed fertility treatments, their marriage unraveled, and Richard leaves her for a younger woman. Hendricks and Pekkanen chronicle a marriage gone wrong through the alternating accounts of the shattered Vanessa and a vibrant, younger woman named Nellie. This is not another eye-rolling story about the jealous ex-wife stalking her replacement, as readers will discover as Vanessa's motivations are revealed. Unforgettable twists lead to shocking revelations all the way through the epilogue. 250,000-copy announced first printing.
