![]() Her life looks pretty perfect from the outside, until she finds that envelope-shaped cat among the pigeons. The Husband’s Secret is set in Sydney, where Cecilia – the woman who finds the envelope – is an (otherwise) happily married mother-of-three. It wasn’t until their storylines began to merge and intersect that things finally started making sense again… None of them seemed particularly three-dimensional, and they all had generic white-people names: Rachel. ![]() My brain was whirring, I was dying of curiosity, convinced this book was a winner… but then, in chapters two and three, we almost inexplicably started bouncing around in the lives (and, later, timelines) of a bunch of other characters. I think it goes without saying that, given that this is how the story begins, the opening chapter is an absolute cracker. ![]() But her husband is still very much alive, and he won’t tell her what’s inside. Jumping right in, The Husband’s Secret has one HECK of a premise! A woman finds an envelope, written in her husband’s hand, and it says (*ominous music*): “For my wife, only to be opened in the event of my death”. ![]()
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