Topic is Sleeping.
cobalt77 (original poster member #62279) posted at 5:54 PM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
has anyone ever read this book? It was recommended on a different infidelity site. I just finished reading it. Whoa it's a trip. I'm wondering if anyone else can relate to it (involves infidelity in a committed but not married relationship, and a OC) and would be interested in discussing it? Has this novel ever been discussed on this site before? Also I heard rumors it might be in the works to be made into a movie starring Nicole Kidman, any truth to that?
Broken1Again ( member #32211) posted at 7:45 PM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
WS and I together 31 years.
Two kids 26/23
MailServer ( member #40502) posted at 8:40 PM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
Yes. I read it. A real twisty ending. But the betrayed woman kind of annoyed me. I can’t recall why now. Guess I better re-read it.
BS/Me (61)
WH (62) 3 years behind my back. EA & PA with OW who was an old high school friend.
DDay: August 26 2012
Phoenix1 ( member #38928) posted at 8:41 PM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
You may want to post this down in the Book Club forum since, well, it's about books.
fBS - Me
Xhole - Multiple LTAs/2 OCs over 20+yrs
Adult Kids
Happily divorced!
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. ~C.S. Lewis~
SI Staff ( Moderator #10) posted at 11:40 PM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
yuvas ( member #59339) posted at 11:17 AM on Thursday, July 12th, 2018
I’ve read it twice! I thought the author captured the hollow, disorienting feeling that the shock of your spouse betraying you brings really accurately.
In saying that not one of the characters was likeable!
traicionada ( member #10310) posted at 3:11 AM on Friday, July 13th, 2018
I read it Christmas Eve 2017...Here’s my goodreads review of it
I am not a connoisseur of the psychological thriller genre; nonetheless, I don’t think this book quite fits the definition of it. In a psychological thriller, the characters are exposed to danger on a mental level rather than a physical one. Don’t get me wrong! I do believe that infidelity has the ability to test your sanity or at a minimum make you question what you are truly made out; however, this book, while well written, doesn’t quite explore the subject in all its devastating magnitude.
Real love is a CHOICE, NOT a feeling...
JellyGirl84 ( member #41717) posted at 12:08 AM on Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Sometimes I trigger over this book because....I read it about a month or so before I discovered my xwh's A. I tend to believe that I decided to read it because on a subconscious level, I knew something was going on behind my back.
It IS a good read though.
BW, 35
Dday in Nov. '13
Divorced in June '14
minusone ( member #50175) posted at 12:50 AM on Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Just got it from the digital library.
I have two other books going....I multi read.....but my limit is two.
I will finish one and then start the Silent Wife.
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better". Maya Angelou
Cooley2here ( member #62939) posted at 6:57 PM on Monday, November 12th, 2018
I have read the book twice. It takes place in England. Two brothers from a dysfunctional family. Each is married. The book really explores keeping secrets, emotional abuse, troubled teenagers, and family dynamics. It’s difficult to put this in any one genre. You see things from the wives’ standpoint and neither tells the other what is going on. I think anyone who has married into a family like this one would certainly learn how not to keep secrets. It’s fiction and I think very well done. There is cheating so be prepared.
When things go wrong, don’t go with them. Elvis
Topic is Sleeping.
