The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty

So I have cheated yet again!! This is the latest book that I have read however I have read others in between that I haven't reviewed yet!

But I just couldn't wait to do this one!! With the start if university looming I have been crazily trying to get some more dissertation reading done to no avail!! SO I have taken to reading what I want to read! I got some Amazon vouchers for my birthday so I spent them all on new books!! I got a total of about 24 books :) All ready to read alongside the other huge piles sitting waiting in my bedroom! (Sorry dissertation reading but you just cant compete with these!!!)

The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty

Usually I am not a person to like these sort of books! But after starting this book at 11 last night and finishing it today at 2 I cant help but say it completely drew me in and made me cry, want to scream and laugh simultaneously. I know I say this about a hell of a lot of books but it totally took over my life from the moment that I picked it up!! I did truly believe this was going to be a normal book about a husband cheating etccccccc ... BORING! But in fact this book was so cleverly written, intertwined and thought out that actually the book is amazing the characters are amazing and everything about it amazed me!!

Cecilia is the normal average housewife, with a doting husband and three girls. That is until she finds a letter her husband has written addressed to her but only to be opened after his death. Cecilia cant contain this desire to open the letter but when she does it turns their whole lives upside down and inside out. Forcing a chain of events that change their lives forever!

Tess is married to a husband that she loves, she has a cousin who is more like a sister to her , a son she adores, and they all have a successful business between them. She thinks her life is ideal until her husband and cousin sit her down for a conversation one night and in the heat of the moment she drags her only son to her mothers across the country and everything is changed for their lives, they will never be able to go back to how it was.

For Rachel one fateful afternoon in Autumn took her daughter away from her as she was strangled and left on a park slide to be found. Rachel has never gotten over this and as a result has never had the relationship she should have had with her son. Now her son is married with a son of his own, who he is now wanting to take from Australia to New York. Rachel doesn't know how she will live until she finds something startling which she believes will catch her daughters  killer. Rachels life is turned upside down when all these women's lives intertwine in Sydney in a place where they all grew up and all their children know each other.

When all these women's lives come together there are disastrous results for all involved. All three come out changed and not necessarily for the best or for the worst.

I can well and truly say that this 400 page book grips you from the very word go! And keeps you there long after you have finished. There is no way to describe how distraught I have felt when reading this book! How much my opinions of the people in the book  have changed throughout. It makes you think and consider your own lives and whether you would be able to make the decisions they do and would you react the same. If you found a letter from your husband/wife that was written to you to be read when they died, would you open it now? Or would you observe their wishes and ignore it until they did die?

The epilogue of the book also brings more questions into consideration, that a lot of the things that happened, were they predestined to be happy? Were they meant to happen for a reason? Does everything work out for at least one of them? Is there such a thing as karma? Should you really treasure the boring, mundane moments in life, as the exciting ones can be too much and can do too much damage?

I truly do recommend everyone to read this book and see what you think as I am struggling to describe how amazing it is in words at the moment!!

So as I have said I have read a few other books in between and I will be reviewing them also in between dissertation stuff and life!! I look forward to getting stuck into the rest of the books I got for my birthday and have Liane Moriarty's new book to read also!! I am extremely grateful that at the moment I have so much time to read and I am definitely making the most of it before the chaos that is life begins again in earnest at the end of the month!


See you soon :)
Leanne