At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that is no meant to be read…
My darling Cecilia,
If you’re reading this, then I’ve died…

BACK COVER

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret–something with the potential to destroy not only the life you have built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagine that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive…

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all–she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything–and not just for her. There are other women who barely know Cecilia–or each other–but they, too, are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

REVIEW

Exceptionally exploitive! Slow moving at first as I was impatient to know the secret, curious if I was correct, it became a slightly anticlimactic climb to the women’s collision. Moriarty effortlessly explores the reality that nothing is truly felt until the tragedy happens to you. She exploits the blindness caused by overwhelming tragedy and the need for revenge, the crippling truth behind everything is clearer in hindsight. She begs the question of what happens when the choices we are forced to make seem incapable of holding a right decision, when there is no correct answer. She creates a world imagining for us what happens when one turns a blind eye to injustice. She draws attention to the idea that children pay for the sins of their parents, that there is a balancing of scores, that no crime goes unpunished. Moriarty forces the reader to question every black and white thought, to dive into the grey, the idea that everything isn’t always as it seems. We live in a society where it is assumed the white collar family man is pure and innocent while children are told to fear the presumably bad creepy man–Moriarty unravels this wrongful assumption. I love an author who forces me to think, to imagine, to question my own beliefs; leads me to ask of myself, what would I do? To top her own brilliant imagination and drive it all home, Moriarty goes to the length of declaring what would have happened if these people had made better choices, if tragedy hadn’t struck and they chose the path to prevent this domino of catastrophe.