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'The Husbands Secret' Book Club Review

The general consensus as a book club was the book was easy to read due to the author’s easy style of writing.    Deep moral life issues are addressed in the book.   There are too many important issues in the story plot to give gravitas to life changing events and actions and the moral issues of:   Forgiveness; Guilt; Parenting; Marriage; Infidelity; Secrecy; and ‘what if’ scenarios. Comments from the group I enjoyed reading “The Husband’s Secret” and the author hooked me into the story very quickly.  Whilst searching for a piece of the Berlin wall for her daughter, Cecelia finds a letter from her husband with a note to read only after his death – what should she do?  What would you do?  After reading it the lives of the three main characters become inextricably linked.  At first I thought there was too much going on but very quickly got involved with each of the characters.  Cecelia is very organised and Tupperware stalwart – a pillar of the community.  Tess moves to the town