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Published in the UK as The Telling Error
Lisa Gardner calls it "mesmerizing." Liane Moriarty says it's "unpredictable, unputdownable, and unlike anything you've read before." See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about.
She's a wife.
She's a mother.
She isn't who you think she…
Why read it?
1 author picked Woman with a Secret as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Nicki's obsessive internal monologue seems to trap her somewhere between fantasy and reality.
But isn't this a truth about life in general? How much do we rationalize our desires as we navigate the world outside our heads?
Her desires keep her from seeing key aspects of her own personality. As she argues with herself in meticulous detail, so do the police who suspect her of murder. The reader must figure out to what extent Nicki is a reliable narrator, as well as whether the police's logic is sound.
What I relate to in this book is that I've sometimes learned…
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