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Average rating3.6
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret -- something so terrible it would destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all -- she's an incredibly successful business woman, a pillar of her small community and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, both for her and for two other women she barely knows.
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Just plain loved it. Clever, thoughtful, entertaining. Wonderfully written and paced exactly to my liking.
This book is based around 3 women and how their lives at the start of the book are separate but become inextricably linked by the end.
Cecelia is a woman with it all, 3 beautiful daughters and a loving husband. When she finds a letter in the attic from her husband to be opened in the event of his death. She opens it and uncovers a secret that devastates her family.
Rachel is a grandmother who is struggling to come to terms with the death of her teenage daughter over 20 years ago. Tess is betrayed by her husband who admits he's having an affair with her cousin.
This story brings them all together as the contents of the letter affect all of their lives. It is a good read, not too emotional or overly taxing.
I found the ending a little weak, I wasn't sure that I believed Rachel's character would have been so lenient or that after fighting for so long she'd be happy not to bring things to a head.
This is the second book I've read by this author and find her to be good but not outstanding. This seems to be a very popular read in the book charts just now but whilst it's good I'm not sure it's worthy of the hype.
Another good book from Liane Moriarty! I definitely liked Big Little Lies better but this was still enjoyable.
My favourite thing about thus author is the way she can easily and comfortably weave stories from various characters through the novel to then arrive at the conclusion which involves them all. All of the chapters flow nicely together despite changing POVs, it's not jarring like some books can be.
I will say that I thought this could have been a little shorter. It was a story line which kept my attention but could have still been trimmed down 50 pages or so.
All in all I'm glad I read it and enjoyed it a lot so I'll be looking for others from the author.