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The Husband's Secret
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The Husband's Secret

Written by Liane Moriarty

Narrated by Caroline Lee

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other.

Three women. One secret. And a letter that will change everything-forever.

Tess. Rachel. Cecilia. Three women living three very different lives. But when Cecilia opens up a Pandora's box, their lives will intersect in ways none of them could foresee.

Cecilia is the woman who seems to have it all: a successful career, a gorgeous husband, and three wonderful daughters. One day she finds an old tattered letter in the attic that's addressed to her, to be opened only in the event of her husband's death. But he's still very much alive. When Cecilia casually mentions it to him on the phone, he laughs it off, telling her to put the letter away. Yet when he flies home early from an overseas business trip, and then frantically searches for the letter, Cecilia realizes there's something important in it, something she needs to know. Yet even Pandora herself could not prepare Cecilia for what the letter reveals.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 30, 2013
ISBN9781101630716
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The Husband's Secret
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Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies, The Husband's Secret, and 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 children. www.lianemoriarty.com.au

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Better than I was expecting! Although predictable, there was plenty to think about. Would make a good Book Club selection for groups that prefer lighter, but topical subject matter. Quick, very easy read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Lives are shattered because of a long-ago incident that had far-reaching consequences. Very well written and captivating, this was a detailed book with excellent character development.I will search for more books written by this author.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was a decent book, but the worst ending possible. I hated the epilogue the most. I wish I hadn't read the last 100 pages. Ugh!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    At first this book to me was a little slow. It always confuses me a little when reading a book that changes complete characters from chapter to chapter and doesn't really let you know with a title. The book is about two husbands that have very different secrets. One secret you find out right away and that storyline is pretty much all about the wife. The other secret takes a little bit to be revealed. As I was reading I was wondering what one family had to do with the other but everything is slowly revealed. This is very well written, descriptive and enjoyable. I would recommend it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As you might be able to tell from the cover blurb above, Liane Moriarty knows how to write a hook! Although definitely a book I would describe as women’s fiction, this book had a constant tension that made me desperately want to find out what would happen next, something I usually associate with only the best of thrillers. It was awesome! Transitions between characters occurred at faster or slower rates in a way that masterfully guided the pacing of the story all the way through.

    Since our story transitions between three characters, I was curious if I could distinguish which character we were with.The book was written in third person, so each character didn’t have a distinct voice. However, Liane Moriarty does such a spectacular job creating detailed personalities for each woman that I still felt they could be uniquely distinguished from one another. I loved that this intense, thriller-level-of-exciting story was built from these believable people and mundane details. Although fortunately I have experienced very few of the events that rock these characters’ worlds, Moriarty made me believe completely in the emotions she described. Her descriptions, a few perfect parallel stories that are told in snippers throughout the book… everything combined to make me feel deeply involved in this story. Her characters’ also have a lot of great insights and realizations about life, love, and relationships that really made me think. So, while I hate to go all gushy over books two days in a row, this another one that if you’re even considering, you should definitely take a chance on.

    This review first published on Doing Dewey.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Astounding story of interconnected lives and human frailty.

    Poignant, hilarious, wide-eyed look at humanity in its glory and decadence. Another brilliant tale from Liane Moriarty set in Austrailia.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fantastic captivating story. Liane Moriarty is a great storyteller who creates real characters that just comes to life off the pages. The story follows, Cecilia, Tess, and Rachel, these ladies were well developed characters that I felt like I understood and definitely connected with. I was so riveted to the story that I found myself yelling, "Open the damn letter already" (In the most friendly way of course). I was so anxious to find out what the secret was I got a little caught up with the story, or actually a lot caught up. I found myself making guesses at to what his secret could be. And just so you know, the secret was definitely a shocker. Not telling. The Husband's Secret was a very compelling read and I think Ms. Moriarty is a very smart storyteller to weave such a true to life story, as you can get with fiction. And oh, that Epilogue gave me the shivers, I actually had goosebumps reading it and now I'm sure that I will be dealing with the feels, and trying very hard to get over the emotions this book left me with.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A page turner--don't read this book if you have anything you need to do. I sat down and read the book until I read it to the end.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Enjoyed this one almost as much as Big Little Lies. This one would make a great movie. I did something I never do and skipped ahead to read the letter. lol Looking forward to Nine Perfect Strangers next month.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Liane Moriarty is not one of my favourite authors. I only read this book because it was a book club book otherwise it wouldn’t have got a look in. I find her work a bit hit and miss. Some of her books have been OK (not great) but others have been less than OK. This one continues the trend of just being OK. The characters were developed in a reasonable manner but I found that the story took a fairly long time to get anywhere. As a result of this it was boring me more than making me excited to read more. For the characters we had a very successful and wealthy woman called Cecilia who seemed to have the perfect family (happy husband with at least 3 daughters), Tess who also had the perfect family until her husband and cousin destroyed it for her and her son, and then we had Rachel who has been grieving her daughter’s death for many years with her grief driving her to find the person who ended her daughter’s life. The storyline seems like its all been done before so nothing really original which led to a pretty flat story overall for me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The Husband's Secret is a book that I read like mad as I was drawn to the characters and their stories. Later, I read like mad to get it over with. Needless to say, the book started off remarkably well, with amazing character development and their equally amazing stories. Before the halfway mark, the 'secret' is revealed and things slow down considerably.
    The last half of the book involved some dramatically wonderful scenes, but few of them, and the end left me feeling less enthused than I was hoping for based on the beginning.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It took me a while for me to “get into” this book, and I admit to nearly putting it down. There are several couple to get to know, along with their various problems (which eventually will reveal themselves into various secrets), and they do take time to see the intersections. Eventually, I caught on. Eventually I began to want to know! No spoiler alerts. I dropped one star because of the slow start.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I love how Liane Moriarity weaves chapters from different character's points of view together so we see different sides of the same event. Cecelia finds an envelope addressed to her to be read only in the event of her husband's death. She thinks it is funny and doesn't plan on reading it until her husband starts acting very weird about it.The other main characters are Rachel and Tess. Rachel's daughter Janie was murdered 28 years ago. The killer was never caught. Tess has just been informed that her best friend and cousin Felicity is in lover with her husband. He wants them all to live in the same house as a happy family.Their lives all connect to each other in ways they never knew. This books explores how one little action can affect so many others.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When I started reading The Husband's Secret I felt cheated from the first pages. You see, this is my second book by Moriarty, the first one was What Alice Forgot. And from the first pages of The Husband's Secret I felt like different characters were placed on a already existing base of What Alice Forgot.
    But I kept on reading and I am really glad I did. The feeling of the book being merely a copy-paste of another book disappeared with few chapters and I was submerged in a world where real life was kicking these characters hard in the face! At one point I actually yelled at one character out loud, and not many books do that to me.
    So I would totally recommend this book. If this is your first book by Moriarty you will love it ( if you are into this kind of style of course, because to each their own). And if this is not your first book by her, you might be disappointed by similarities, but probably still want to dive head first in a world of somebody else's crumbling live.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The more I listen to audiobooks, the more I find that I especially enjoy listening to a reader with an accent. I don't know why that is--what is it that we, especially mid-westerners who lack any type of accent at all, find so attractive about the dialect of people from another part of the world? It's fascinating to me; and if that makes me shallow, so be it!

    Anyway, beyond the lovely voice and accent of the reader, I found this book to be very entertaining and captivating. It focuses on three different women who, from the start, would seem to have little or nothing in common. As the story goes on, however, you find that their lives are incredibly intertwined. Although this book isn't cataloged as a mystery, it certainly would qualify as one in my opinion. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but I definitely felt a bit of the "whodunnit" suspense going on throughout the story!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I love how well Moriarty twists and turns through the book, keeping the reader guessing. Like many, I love to try figuring out an ending, and I love it even more when I am completely surprised!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A powerful tale of consequences and the mysteries of misplaced affection. The characters were so real, I felt I could genuinely be friends with some of them...others not so much. A compelling storyline and a little intrigue all combined to make this a compulsive read for me.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I found the beginning a little confusing, as the first three chapters seemed to be three different stories, but then the stories began to weave together and I was hooked. Having so many story threads and characters has the potential to be difficult to keep track of, but this book manages it well. The twists are totally unexpected, the characters so very real. This is the first book I've read by this author and I won't hesitate to pick up another.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I went through *so* many emotions while reading this novel:interest at the original premise of the found letter, confusion at so many characters/stories, disdain at what various good Catholics were thinking/doing/not doing, worry/fear for how all these stories would congeal into any semblance of resolution.It was recommended to me by several friends so I stuck with it and I was glad I did. I found the Epilogue chapter extremely satisfying.Also, reading a book set in Australia was very interesting for someone who lives in the northern hemisphere (i.e. Easter time for them was early autumn, not early spring, the various traditions surrounding Easter in Australia).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I did not expect to be as pleased as I was by this book. Very much a "judging by the cover" situation, but thak you book club. Pretty sure I know several of these characters - and secrets? Well, I expect them to be kept (that's what they are) so.....
    Very neatly tied up. Good job Ms Moriarty.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    SO FREAKING GOOD. It's a toss up between this and Big Little Lies for my fav Liane Moriarty. Love her trademark combo of dark and light plotlines.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    i received this book through a goodreads giveaway, i really enjoyed it it was defiantly a page turner, was very well written and kept my interest would recommend reading.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If you like her style, you will like this one. Somewhat predictable, but still one that you have to read to the finish to get all the pieces of the puzzle. Her books are quite formulaic, but great for a travel read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Parts of it were a bit predictable, but I always enjoy her books and I was interested in each individual story as well as the ways they intertwined.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Essentially the story of two marriages at risk - one because of infidelity and one because of a long harbored secret. Although the circumstances are quite different, the issues of honesty, intimacy, and love are both major factors. I enjoyed the omniscient narrator who revealed things the characters didn't know but which change the perspective for the reader.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Engrossing read. My only small regret was that I'd read Little Big Lies first and it made The Husband's Secret seem a tad formulaic. So my advice would be read this and ignore the temptation to work your way through Ms Moriarty's other books. That said, this is a great read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Cecelia Fitzpatrick one day finds an envelope with her name on it, written in her husband's handwriting, directing her to open it only after his death. What does she do? Well, she stews on it for a while, then is eventually triggered to rip it open & read. Then, of course, she must deal with the repercussions.The big "secret" (which, by the way, was not what I was expecting) is revealed approximately midway through the story. Thus, the climax is midway through the story, and for some reason this didn't sit well with me. I felt like it would've been better placed earlier on with subsequent development, or better left toward the end. But regardless. Overall, this was another enjoyable Moriarty novel. Part chick-lit, part suspense and mystery. It kept me engaged and Caroline Lee as reader of the audiobook made it even more appealing. The ending took somewhat of an unexpected, but not unpleasant, turn. And the epilogue was quite thought-provoking, one which could trigger an additional discussion.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Like watching an episode of Neighbour's: soap-opera. Rachel, still trying to live with her grief years after her daughter has been murdered. Cecilia, efficiently running her Tupperware business, then discovering her husband's secret. And Tess, who flees to her mother in Sydney with her son when her husband tells her he is in love with her once-fat cousin, and embarks on her own affair.Not literature, but the characterisations were believable, and I actually began to enjoy the plotting as the stories of these women and their families began to intertwine.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I actually liked this one better than Big Little Lies. I listened to this one and I love the narrator. She is so good with the characters. This was an interesting story. I was intrigued by the intermingling of each person with some other's life. The question, "What if?" came to my mind a lot during this book. Then the epilogue comes and the author answers several of those questions. Moriarty sure does tell a great tale and her characters are very believable and relatable.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Good, not great. Fairly predictable but a decent beach read type book.