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At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read…
My darling Cecilia,
If you’re reading this, then I’ve died…
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not only the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagine 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 businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. But that letter is about to change everything—and not just for her. There are other women who barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they, too, are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.
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Release date
October 31, 2023 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593864289
- File size: 395942 KB
- Duration: 13:44:52
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Languages
- English
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When two husbands disclose their secrets, their disturbing news embroils more than their wives in these intersecting stories. Narrator Caroline Lee conjures the spectrum of emotions associated with the stages of grief--from Cecelia's shock when she discovers the letter containing her husband's confession to Tess's quiet numbness when her husband's confession leads to the loss a friend. Lee's relatively high-pitched voice also emphasizes the loud angry moments as the women process their losses. She's strongest portraying a mother's grief and rage over her daughter's death. While Lee's voice modulations often have an overly sarcastic edge to them, her ability to express a breaking voice, as well as her pacing and timing, dramatically conveys the women's dynamic emotions. M.F. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine -
June 10, 2013
Australian author Moriarty, in her fifth novel (after The Hypnotist’s Love Story), puts three women in an impossible situation and doesn’t cut them any slack. Cecilia Fitzpatrick lives to be perfect: a perfect marriage, three perfect daughters, and a perfectly organized life. Then she finds a letter from her husband, John-Paul, to be opened only in the event of his death. She opens it anyway, and everything she believed is thrown into doubt. Meanwhile, Tess O’Leary’s husband, Will, and her cousin and best friend, Felicity, confess they’ve fallen in love, so Tess takes her young son, Liam, and goes to Sydney to live with her mother. There she meets up with an old boyfriend, Connor Whitby, while enrolling Liam in St. Angela’s Primary School, where Cecilia is the star mother. Rachel Crowley, the school secretary, believes that Connor, St. Angela’s PE teacher, is the man who, nearly three decades before, got away with murdering her daughter—a daughter for whom she is still grieving. Simultaneously a page-turner and a book one has to put down occasionally to think about and absorb, Moriarty’s novel challenges the reader as well as her characters, but in the best possible way. Agent: Faye Bender, Faye Bender Literary Agency.
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