My Husband's Wife: A Novel

The book amazing. It was obviously well outlined so that bombshell after bombshell were continually surprises and unforcastable .o
It was a difficult book to review without being a spoiler. However, I can say it was an excellent tale that delved into the difficulty of forgiveness, self analysis, and truly confessing bad behaviors to others. None of the characters were really likeable nor truly despicable. Real people with real problems. I had some problems with the character shifts in dome of the sections-e.g. going from telling about to first person dialog. Also, although I can't sat which character, I would have written her end differently

Awful book, from page 1 to end. Despicable immoral characters who had no redeeming qualities. Was hoping it would get better but it was boring all the way through...hours of my life I will never get back. I should have gone to the dentist...less painful!!!

As this suspense novel is nearing a climax, two women use the term “my husband’s wife.” In both cases the husband is the same man, and the wife is the other woman. It makes for a dangerous triangle.

Lily and Ed Macdonald, newly married, live in London. She is a lawyer, just getting started, assigned to represent Joe Thomas, who wants to appeal his conviction for murdering his girlfriend by pushing her into a scalding bath. Lily feels strangely drawn to Joe. Ed is a graphic designer, but his first love is painting. Across the hall live Italian immigrant Francesca and her daughter Carla, 9, who spends Sundays with the Macdonalds while her mother is entertaining a “special friend.” For Ed, Carla is the perfect model. Lily learns Francesca’s lover is a man she knows under a different name. Joe is tried again.

Twelve years later, Carla, now a strikingly beautiful woman, returns to London to study law. She moves in with the Macdonalds, whose marriage is falling apart. Uh-oh. The Macdonalds’ son has Asperger’s syndrome. Lily feels responsible for her younger brother's death years ago. Someone is threatening Lily. Joe says he wants to protect her. Someone is killed. By whom? At the end, someone says, “I’m my new husband’s wife.”

British author Jane Corry worked as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison for men. That must be why the novel’s scenes in the prison ring true. This is Corry’s debut thriller.

“There’s something really odd about your husband having another wife,” one of the characters tells the reader. Also something really fascinating – at least the way this story unfolds.