The Husband's Secret

Moriarty, Liane

ISBN 10: 1594137226 / ISBN 13: 9781594137228

Published by Large Print Pr, 2015

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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Husband's Secret
• Publisher: Large Print Pr
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594137226
• ISBN 13: 9781594137228
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 657.7 grams

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Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller



Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter to be opened after his death. Imagine‚ too‚ that the letter contains his darkest secret -- something with the potential to destroy the life you built together‚ and the lives of others as well. Imagine‚ then‚ that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all. Her life is as orderly as her home. But that letter is about to change everything.

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