How far would you go to fulfil a promise to your oldest friend?
Nina, in the final days of her illness, asks her best friend Marie to look after her family when she's gone. And Marie does everything she can to step into Nina's shoes after her friend's tragic death. She tries to do the best by Nina, tries to be there for Nina's young children, tries to support Nina's grieving husband, and tries to keep their lives on track despite their terrible loss.
But when Marie discovers a dark secret that Nina had kept concealed, she is forced to confront the past, and those shared secrets come back to haunt her too.
Tense, heart-breaking and utterly gripping, The Last Wife explores the real nature of love and friendship - and just how fragile every relationship can be in the face of the secrets we hide from each other.
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(@headlinepg, 25 June 2020, 352 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 19 June via @RandomTTours
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I'd never heard of the author before so had zero expectations for this book. The blurb intrigued me. The story sounded nice and twisted, just the way I like it. I really enjoyed this. The book turned out to be very different than I expected it to be. After reading the first few chapters, I grew very suspicious of Marie and thought she was warped. I got a sense something was off with her. The book took a lot of turns I wasn't expecting and my initial thoughts about Marie were way off. The book is quite dark at times but very well written and engaging with completely believable characters. I quickly got lost in it. I will definitely read more work by this author.
