THE HUSBAND’S SECRET by Liane Moriarty

All right… I wasn’t expecting that ….

I started reading “The Husband’s Secret” without much expectation. Getting through the first chapters was easy and it did not predict much but it definitely build up towards an amazing story that kept me captivated.

Families are complicated and everyone has a secret they want to keep away from the world. Going from Melbourne to Sydney and back, these families are connected for ages and the reader needs to discover how and when things happened.

Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not only the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagine that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive… What would you choose? Would you protect a killer for the sake of your family or would you report it to the police and bring a mother the peace she was looking for so many years?

“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.” 
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband’s Secret

The Husband’s secret is one incredible family drama that could teach us one or two things about love, sacrifice, secrets, egos and compromise.

Although the ending didn’t seem very realistic to me, it’s still a book and it might be as real as it can. After all secrets build different realities and unless you’re living in the middle of them you can’t think or judge other’s decisions.

“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It’s probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”