Vanessa is an ex-wife. Her husband is now about to marry a beautiful, younger woman, and Vanessa is alone. She had a large house, designer clothes, days of leisure. Now she has a bedroom at her aunt’s and a job selling designer clothes to other women. As the chapters go back and forth between young Nellie and older (and wiser) Vanessa, we get a picture of how the relationships looked to outsiders.
But things aren’t always what they seem.
The end of part one of The Wife Between Us is just the first big twist in this novel full of surprises. Just when you think you’ve got a handle on what’s going on, the ground beneath you shifts, and you find yourself in a completely different story than the one you thought you were reading. But realize this—it will happen again. And again. And again. You have to read all the way to the end to find out what the true story is.
Authors Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen take you for a very twisty ride in this first novel together, setting the stage for so many exciting possibilities for those of us who adore a good psychological thriller. And this is a very good psychological thriller.
I got an early copy of this, but because of drama in my life, I struggled to find the time to get to it. So I bought the audio version after it was released and started listening. It’s narrated by Julia Whelan, who is one of my favorite audiobook narrators, and I couldn’t stop listening. I got sucked in quickly and stayed there, until I couldn’t take it anymore and finished the story myself, since I can read faster than I listen.
I hate it when people call books “unputdownable.” But this one was. I can’t recommend this one enough. Start reading it now, and if you can put it down and walk away, go ahead. I couldn’t.
Galleys for The Wife Between Us were provided by St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley, with many thanks, but I bought the audio myself, thanks to Audible.