Jane Green's latest book tells the story of Grace Chapman. To outsiders Grace appears to live the perfect life and have a successful marriage to best selling novelist Ted Chapman. Grace however has dark secrets about her childhood to face and Ted is prone to terrible mood swings behind closed doors.
When Beth, a personal assistant, enters their lives she appears to be perfect, but Grace soon begins to have her doubts as Beth starts to manipulate Ted and the people around them into believing that Grace is insane. In an effort to save herself Grace decides to find out the true story of Beth, so that she can rebuild her life and regain the trust of those near and dear to her.
Now whilst I realize that this isn't the first time this storyline /plot has been used I thought this was a great read. The ending was what you would expect and there was really no great mystery contained within the story yet it was well written and gripping with well drawn characters.
I did enjoy and appreciate that Jane Green detailed the differing approaches to health care in the UK and the US and brought to light the over prescription of medicines in the US and that she did so in a compassionate, understanding way.
I didn't like the inclusion of recipes at the end of chapters as I thought this distracted from the story. I'm not sure that they had any relevance being there either, beyond the fact that Grace's character is a keen cook...
Overall though this was a very good book that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Recommended.
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