The Husbands Secret (Thorndike Press Large Print Core) - Hardcover

Moriarty, Liane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410463524 ISBN 13: 9781410463524

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2013

Synopsis

Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecilia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.

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Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, August 2013: Liane Moriary is probably doomed to be forever labeled a writer of “chick lit.” But despite its dopey name, her new novel, The Husband’s Secret, is better described as a comedy of manners and one with a serious undertone. As in her previous books, most successfully What Alice Forgot, Moriarty here wittily and observantly chronicles the life of middle aged, middle class Australian women, suburbanites who grapple with prosaic issues like marital fidelity and torturous ones like moral guilt and responsibility. You can’t help but laugh along with the small observations--“And there was poor little Rob, a teenage boy clumsily trying to make everything right, all false smiles and cheery lies. No wonder he became a real estate agent.” But it’s the big ones--Can good people do very, very bad things, and what, exactly, are we responsible for, and for how long?--that will make you think. This is a deceptively rich novel that transcends its era and place at the same time that it celebrates same. --Sara Nelson

About the Author:

Liane Moriarty is the internationally bestselling author of the reading group hit, "What Alice Forgot," as well as "The Hypnotist's Love Story," "Three Wishes, ""The Last Anniversary," and the Nicola Berry series for children. Liane lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two small, noisy children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1410463524
• ISBN 13: 9781410463524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 634