A devoted mother to three daughters, she runs her household like clockwork, is President of the P&C, owns an extremely successful Tupperware business and is happy in her 15-year marriage. When her son announces he is taking her beloved grandson overseas, Rachel begins a descent into deeper bitterness and pain.Ĭecilia is the quintessential 'I don't know how she does it' woman. Rachel is a woman in her 60s consumed by grief and anger at the loss of her daughter 20 years earlier. There she begins an unexpected affair with an old flame.

When her husband announces he's in love with her best friend, painfully shy Tess picks up her young son and returns to her mother's house. The Husband's Secret is a funny, heartbreaking novel of marriage, grief, love, and secrets. 'Love you and the girls.so sorry to leave you with this.cannot bear.' (Aug.'To be opened in the event of my death.' With one swift, vicious movement, she sliced the envelope open, and pulled out a handwritten letter. Agent: Faye Bender, Faye Bender Literary Agency. 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.

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. Rachel Crowley, the school secretary, believes that Connor, St. Angela’s Primary School, where Cecilia is the star mother. There she meets up with an old boyfriend, Connor Whitby, while enrolling Liam in St. 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. She opens it anyway, and everything she believed is thrown into doubt. Then she finds a letter from her husband, John-Paul, to be opened only in the event of his death.

Cecilia Fitzpatrick lives to be perfect: a perfect marriage, three perfect daughters, and a perfectly organized life. 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.

The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty