By Tamar Cohen
Think marriage capacity happily-ever-after? imagine again…
Selina and Lottie are entire opposites. the place Selina is poised yet prudish, Lottie is quirky and emotional. Selina is the dutiful mom of 3 youngsters and capable supervisor in their fashionable suburban domestic. Lottie lives together with her eccentric teenage daughter in a small urban condominium healthy to bursting with colour and satisfied chaos. yet those girls even have one stunning similarity: they are married to an identical man…and they have simply figured out he is dead.
Selina has been married to Simon Busfield for twenty-eight years, Lottie for seventeen. Neither understands a specific thing in regards to the different till the day of Simon's funeral, the place the scandalous fact is printed in entrance of every person they understand. one other spouse, one other kinfolk… And they have onlyjust scratched the outside of Simon's really good betrayal.
With darkish humor and razor-sharp wit, Cohen expertly unravels a narrative of deception and betrayal, the place very diversified households will discover they are entwined in ways in which will swap all of them forever.
"Witty, ludicrously melodramatic and psychologically perceptive."
—Sunday Telegraph
"A cracking debut…. deadly allure with a shrewdpermanent twist on the finish. Addictive."
—The Bookseller at the Mistress's Revenge
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