5/10/2023 0 Comments My lovely wife book![]() "My Lovely Wife" could easily be 2019's 'Girl on the Train. Samantha Downing, bestselling author of My Lovely Wife & He Started It. As I read this novel, I found myself mentally casting the movie in my head, because there is a cinematic quality to the book that cannot be overlooked. A Book of the Month and Richard and Judy pick, this smart and thrilling novel. As the novel unwinds, the reader, or at least this reader, is surprised by a brilliant plot twist toward the end of the saga, and a horrific denouement that is perhaps not so unexpected if we've been paying attention. We know it's not Tobias, and most probably not Quentin, these being personas he adopts for the "extracurricular activities," in which he and his wife participate, seemingly as partners. I went back over the novel a few times to see if the reader actually knows the narrator's real name. ![]() Along the way, we learn about the children, the friends, the acquaintances, the everyday life in the affluent area in which the family lives, and the victims, but not too much about the narrator, husband of Millicent, the "lovely wife" of the title. ![]() We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. ![]() Almost from the beginning we know what the couple is doing we gradually learn the why and the how. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. ![]()
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