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I read two highly recommended books this monththe wife between us and the last mrs. A novel ebook written by greer hendricks, sarah pekkanen. If i were to recommend this book to anyone, i would start by telling them not to read the synopsis. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance.
You will assume she is obsessed with her replacementa beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. She obtained her masters degree in journalism from columbia university, and her writing has appeared in the new york times, allure, and publishers weekly. It is a pageturning psychological thriller about the lies we tell one another, including our own selves. An anonymous girl has been optioned for a television series by eone, with sarah and greer executive producing. The wife between us switches back and forth in time with all the characters. Fiendishly the vein of gone girl and the girl on the train. When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.
Jan 12, 2018 the woman in the window and the wife between us. Theyre complex, flawed, and utterly human, and unlike in many of the gone girlstyle books, they are actually quite sympathetic in spite of the unreliable narrator issue. The wife between us exposes the secret complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love the wife between us is an intriguing collaboration between firsttime novelist greer hendricks and bestselling author, sarah pekkanen. A 2018 indie next pick one of glamour magazines best books of 2018 one of hello. If you love psychological thrillers, these are the books like gone girl 2018. They wrote the wife between us in different places, logging on and working via a shared document each day. The wife between us greer hendricks, sarah pekkanen, 2018 st. You will assume you are reading about a jealous exwife. I wont go so far as to say that i liked any of them, but i did feel tremendous sympathy for what at least.
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