Wife, Mother, Liar
Sue Watson
317 pages
Bookouture
published January 10, 2025
About the book
She’s perfect. Too perfect…
Wife: For twenty-five years, my husband and I have been the ideal couple. I’m shy, but he’s always been the life and soul of the party, a charmer, so I didn’t worry the first time I caught him a little too close to my best friend, Wendy.
Mother: Then our darling son says he’s taking Wendy’s daughter to prom, the girl I never trusted because she’s too much like her mother. As I snap photos of them, I have a smile plastered on my face, but inside my head I’m screaming at him to stay away from her.
Liar: As flashing lights slice the darkness around our home, my worst nightmare comes true with the shocking news that one of our children is dead. And I can tell my husband, my best friend are both lying about where they were. But none of their secrets compares to mine.
And nobody knows just how far I’d go to protect my family…
My Review
Sue Watson’s First Date is one of the very first blog tours I did and I was hooked. All these years later, I still love reading her books. They are complicated family dramas with twists and turns that always seem to catch me off guard.
A dual POV story with best friend’s Wendy and Jill as the narrators. They are estranged from their husbands and each other and making an effort to strike their friendship back up. Each has a secret as to why now is the time to try again. It definitely caught me off guard starting on page one. It’s filled with friendship and relationship drama, secrets, and lots of lies. I was proud I figured out one small piece, because this one stunned me more than once. The book lulled me in with it’s slow start and focus on the friendship. But don’t let that fool you, because it builds to a ton of tension and quite the bang.
I like how Wendy and Jill’s relationship was layered and how those layers were slowly revealed during their weekend away. It is cleverly constructed to reveal only what is necessary at the time and those reveals kept changing the trajectory of their resparked friendship. I was constantly wanting to know more and couldn’t read it fast enough.
About the author
Sue Watson was a journalist on national magazines and newspapers before becoming a TV producer with the BBC.
Now a USA Today bestselling author, Sue explores the darker side of life, writing psychological thrillers with big twists.
Originally from Manchester, she now lives with her family in leafy Worcestershire where much of her day is spent writing and procrastinating. Her hobby is eating cake while watching diet and exercise programmes from the sofa, a skill she’s perfected after many years of practice.
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