My Husband's Wife: the Sunday Times bestseller

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Lily’s husband Ed is an aspiring artist, and despite being newly married, the couple is already becoming emotionally distant and Lily is beginning to fear that Ed is cheating on her with his ex. Although this is a rather common theme in women’s fiction - man cheats, man leaves wife, wife has to pick up the remaining pieces of her shattered life - the depictions of the lead character, Rosie, are painfully true to life of what many women think and feel. At home things aren’t all sunshine either, as Lilly finds herself wondering if her whirlwind romance may be been a little too good to be true.

And that was my real issue with the book, the title was misleading as I was expecting her to eventually pick herself up, dust herself down and carry on but she didn't and more importantly didn't want to.It has quickly become clear to me, even after the completion of only three novels, that Amanda is an author I can trust. Jane worked as an RLF Fellow at Exeter University and is a former creative writing tutor at Oxford University. Another strong point of the novel for me, and probably one of my favourite parts of the novel was the dialogue of the children, and particularly their interaction with the adults in the story. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. If you take nothing else from this review, take this - make sure you can read the book, or as much of it as possible in one sitting.

Perfect Daughter', 'My Husband's Wife', 'The Girl in the Corner' and ‘The Things I Know’ have sold millions of copies across the globe. It’s about thinking you have everything you’ve ever wanted, then seeing it torn to shreds in front of your eyes. She is so happy with her lot in life, even though she doesn't have massive riches or a fantastic glamourous job, she loves what she has and in her eyes her world is just where is should be.Although I didn't enjoy reading about the imaginary exchanges between Rosie and her mother (too cringe-worthy for me, unfortunately), I enjoyed the whole backstory to Rosie's childhood, and about her parents. My first was The Christmas Café, and my second was the all-consuming Another Love, both of which I adored.

those who remained her friend, those on the periphery who stepped up and those who abandoned her when she lost her identity as a wife. Cleaning caravans may not have been the most glamorous of careers but knowing that she had her little family to go home to once finished was more than enough to her. Prowse delivered again and again, taking me on a journey not only of self-discovery and love, but of learning to live again and realising that life continues, whether you like it or not, and no matter what's happened to you previously.But the part that really brought the tears to my eyes and the lump to my throat was watching her feel so powerless as much as she was desperate and determined to do right by her girls everything was falling from her fingers and because this actually happens so often in the real world I think this is what made it such emotional reading to think of parents go through the same situation. Damaged people sometimes end up damaging others, often in very intriguing ways, and deliberately or not. You may not always approve of what is going on or how the characters respond to situations but Amanda is an expert at providing a balanced, well presented view to all sides of the story. After a troubled start in life Rosie now is very thankful for the perfect life she has with her two beautiful and comical little girls and her loving and supportive husband and they live in their lovely home by the sea, who could ask for more? Carla is teased and bullied at school because she is Italian; her mum is a single parent and cannot afford the things that other children have, this adding fuel to fire for the children bullying Carla.

There’s no doubt about it, author Amanda Prowse has a very specific talent for creating the most utterly believable characters. In my opinion, the characters weren't particularly well developed either; in fact throughout the book the character descriptions and/or behaviours were so inconsistent I had to keep flipping back and forth to try to understand them; I never did get a handle on them. In fact, I spent most of this book in a high state of indignant rage, how dare they all treat Rosie like that!

A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. Joe and Lily’s initial conversations smack of cut-rate Hannibal and Clarice Starling scenes, with none of Thomas Harris’ nuance of character. This is a very cleverly written book, and Corry has created enough flawed characters to keep even Thomas Hardy fans happy . After her husband leaves, and she finds herself in receipt of a letter her mother wrote when she left, Rosie starts to see similarities in her mother and fathers relationship and her own with Phil and she is forced to re-evaluate the way she has always viewed her past, and look at her childhood more closely.