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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Husband's Secret
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'The Husband's Secret is a funny, heartbreaking novel of marriage, grief, love and secrets. When her husband announces he's in love with her best friend, painfully shy Tess picks up her young son and returns to her mother's house. There she begins an unexpected affair with an old flame. Rachel is a woman in her sixties consumed by grief and anger at the loss of her daughter twenty years earlier. When her son announces he is taking her beloved grandson overseas, Rachel begins a descent into deeper bitterness and pain. Cecilia is the quintessential "I don't know how she does it" woman. A devoted mother to three daughters, she runs her household like clockwork, is President of the P&C, owns an extremely successful Tupperware business and is happy in her fifteen-year marriage. Until she discovers a letter in their attic labelled: "To my wife Cecilia, to be opened in the event of my death"... Her husband's secret is a bombshell beyond all imagining with repercussions across the lives of all three women.'

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    To err is human; to forgive divine.

    -Alexander Pope

  • Dedication:

    For Adam, George and Anna.

    And for Amelia

  • In 2013, CBS optioned the rights to the film. A screenplay by Pamela Gray was apparently completed and American actor Blake Lively was attached to the project at some stage. As of mid-2019, the film remains 'in production'.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Die wahrheit eines augenblicks : Roman
Language: German
    • Cologne,
      c
      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Bastei Lübbe ,
      2013 .
      image of person or book cover 4974577050915416046.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 428p.
      ISBN: 9783785760871 (paperback)

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Braille.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Jane Sullivan Laments the Lack of Australians in a Hymn to Female Crime Writers Jane Sullivan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 July 2016 2016;
'Raymond Chandler famously advised fellow crime writers that when in doubt, they should have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. When today's crime writers are in doubt, they have a woman come through the door with a passive-aggressive zinger on her lips. ...'
Big Little Lies : Author Liane Moriarty Talks about Adapting Her Novel for HBO 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2016;
Schooled in Deceit Touch of Humour Helps Lift Suburban Conflict Karen Hardy , 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 August 2014; (p. 26) The Sun-Herald , 3 August 2014;
[Review] The Husband's Secret Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 May 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty , 2013 single work novel
Suburban Wives and Sinful Secrets Karen Hardy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 March 2013; (p. 12) The Canberra Times , 24 March 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty , 2013 single work novel
Suburban Wives and Sinful Secrets Karen Hardy , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 March 2013; (p. 12) The Canberra Times , 24 March 2013; (p. 26)

— Review of The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty , 2013 single work novel
[Review] The Husband's Secret Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 May 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of The Husband's Secret Liane Moriarty , 2013 single work novel
The Husband's Secret Stephanie Pegler , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 25 May (p. 21)
Author's Dark Turn Leads to Best-Seller Liane Moriarty Storms Bestseller Lists with Husband's Secret; Aussie Author Storms New York Bestseller Lists Nick Galvin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 September 2013; (p. 18) The Canberra Times , 18 September 2013; The Age , 18 September 2013;
Schooled in Deceit Touch of Humour Helps Lift Suburban Conflict Karen Hardy , 2014 single work interview
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 August 2014; (p. 26) The Sun-Herald , 3 August 2014;
Big Little Lies : Author Liane Moriarty Talks about Adapting Her Novel for HBO 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2016;
Jane Sullivan Laments the Lack of Australians in a Hymn to Female Crime Writers Jane Sullivan , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 29 July 2016 2016;
'Raymond Chandler famously advised fellow crime writers that when in doubt, they should have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand. When today's crime writers are in doubt, they have a woman come through the door with a passive-aggressive zinger on her lips. ...'
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