Book Review: His Hidden Wife by Wendy Clarke

 

                                                     Kindle Edition, 320 pages
                                               Published February 4th 2021 by Bookouture
                                                      buy from Amazon

The first time you see them, out for an evening walk on the cliffs, you’ll think they’re the perfect family. You’ll see a wife who looks so happy, strolling peacefully beside her husband in his dark winter coat, holding her daughter’s hand. But you have no idea what’s really happening in their house…

If you come a little closer you might hear the way the man speaks to his wife.

You might notice that the woman doesn’t have any close friends. That sometimes her husband doesn’t want her to leave the house. You might wonder if that’s a scar her beautiful daughter is hiding on her neck.

When you read the local newspaper and hear the news that the wife has fallen from the cliffs, you’ll question whether it was really an accident at all.

And when the husband starts dating someone new – a woman with the same long dark hair and big blue eyes as his wife – will you say something this time?

Because someone has to protect the little girl and stop history from repeating itself. And it may already be too late.

MY REVIEW:

His Hidden Wife by Wendy Clarke
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I read this in 1 sitting. I could not put it down. There were so many twists and turns and just when I thought I figured some things out then I was wrong.
When Maya was a little girl her mom had died, by falling off the sea cliff. We re led to believe she committed suicide. She is now an adult and still living with her dad but he never wants to talk much about her mom and seems to be covering up things. She is finding out things bout their marriage and maybe her dad has been lying to her.
Her dad, Stephen is a psychologist and one of his partners, Teresa, where he works, seems to be obsessed with him. What lengths will she go to to be with him. She just left her abusive husband and took her son with her.
Teresa is also dealing with her mother who has dementia and she struggling with the decision if she needs to be put in a home.
Then Amy comes along, and Stephen is dating her. What things does she find out.
I highly recommend this book.
Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC to read.

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Wendy Clarke has had over three hundred short stories published in national women’s magazines. With a degree in psychology, and intrigued with how the human mind can affect behaviour, it was inevitable she would eventually want to explore her darker side. What She Saw is her debut psychological thriller, published by Bookouture. Wendy lives with her husband, cat and step-dog in Sussex and when not writing is usually dancing, singing or watching any programme that involves food!

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