The Husband's Secret.

Yet another Australian book - I seem to have read a few of them recently for some unknown reason!

In The Husband's Secret, Cecilia lives the perfect prosperous suburban lifestyle with a successful career, happy marriage and adorable children until one day she discovers a letter written by her husband to be opened only upon his death.

Cecilia doesn't mean to open the letter but she does and what she discovers will set her reeling...

The first half of the book is all about 'setting the scene' and the lead up to the discovery of the letter. Then we find out what the letter says and the second half of the book deals with Cecilia and her dilemma. Should she reveal what her husband writes in the letter or does she stand by him for the sake of their family and home life?

It's told as quite a straight forward tale and there are a couple of back stories that it intertwines with but you can also view the book on a deeper level. Redemption, loyalty, forgiveness, betrayal, judgement - there are lots of themes to ponder upon here if you wish.

One thing that I found odd about it was that it seemed fairly dated in terms of the lifestyles that the characters were leading.

It did have a very clever and unusual epilogue that I liked a lot.

 I enjoyed this and I would read other books by Lianne Moriaty but I didn't enjoy it enough to rush out and grab them straight away. It's a good beach read kind of book but nothing astounding for me.