You Should Have Known
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3.6 • 78 Ratings
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- $29.99
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- $29.99
Publisher Description
Read the "rollickingly good literary thriller" and New York Times bestseller that's the inspiration for the HBO limited series The Undoing, premiering October 25 and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant (Vanity Fair).
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.
Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and 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 her child and herself.
Customer Reviews
Needed more oomph!
So good until about 3/4 thru and then it just went down hill. I was so disappointed with whatever happened to Jonathan, no specific reasons for his craziness. I did love Grace and her son though.
I feel robbed of time
To be Truthful, I only got this book because of the show, because I wanted to find out the full story and who was the killer, but my god I did not realize that the show is simply inspired by this book and the show extended to a different kind of story. This book is full of minuscule and dull details and nonsense that stretches out the Novel and leaves lots of unanswered questions. It’s painfully anticlimactic, If I had to go back I’d definitely pass on making this purchase.
On the positive note the fault is all on the author and not the wonderful reader, hearing her read helped the slow pace of this book.
What a waste
The author apparently gets paid by the word. Goes off over and over in unnecessary back stories and details… the book/story doesn’t even get started until around chapter 5? And then went off into unending details of nothing.
I literally skipped several chapters and like a soap opera, missed nothing! For the love of God ‘BRIDGE’ this book…this un~abridged version…was a bridge too far. :-) Finally just listened to the end… the dumbest ending ever.