Before We Met: A Novel
Jan 2014 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
3.8star
20 reviews
Ebook
288
Pages
About this ebook
A "taut and fraught . . . Paranoia-inducing." (Entertainment Weekly) psychological thriller that will keep readers guessing right up until the last page.
A whirlwind romance. A picture-perfect marriage. Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness.
Until the day her husband doesn't come home ...
Hannah, independent, headstrong and determined not to follow in the footsteps of her bitterly divorced mother, has always avoided commitment. But one hot New York summer she meets Mark Reilly, a fellow Brit, and is swept up in a love affair that changes all her ideas about what marriage might mean.
Now, living in their elegant, expensive London townhouse and adored by her fantastically successful husband, she knows she was right to let down her guard.
But when Mark does not return from a business trip to the States and when the hours of waiting for him stretch into days, the foundations of Hannah's certainty begins to crack. Why do Mark's colleagues believe he has gone to Paris not America? Why is there no record of him at his hotel? And who is the mysterious woman who has been telephoning him over the last few weeks?
Hannah begins to dig into her husband's life uncovering revelations that throw into doubt everything she has ever believed about him. As her investigation leads her away from their fairytale romance into a place of violence and fear she must decide whether the secrets Mark has been keeping are designed to protect him, or protect her ...
A whirlwind romance. A picture-perfect marriage. Hannah Reilly has seized her chance at happiness.
Until the day her husband doesn't come home ...
Hannah, independent, headstrong and determined not to follow in the footsteps of her bitterly divorced mother, has always avoided commitment. But one hot New York summer she meets Mark Reilly, a fellow Brit, and is swept up in a love affair that changes all her ideas about what marriage might mean.
Now, living in their elegant, expensive London townhouse and adored by her fantastically successful husband, she knows she was right to let down her guard.
But when Mark does not return from a business trip to the States and when the hours of waiting for him stretch into days, the foundations of Hannah's certainty begins to crack. Why do Mark's colleagues believe he has gone to Paris not America? Why is there no record of him at his hotel? And who is the mysterious woman who has been telephoning him over the last few weeks?
Hannah begins to dig into her husband's life uncovering revelations that throw into doubt everything she has ever believed about him. As her investigation leads her away from their fairytale romance into a place of violence and fear she must decide whether the secrets Mark has been keeping are designed to protect him, or protect her ...
Ratings and reviews
3.8
20 reviews
Claudia Lopez-Muñiz
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October 15, 2019
It starts off strong but then meanders and ultimately loses steam. Also, there are numerous typos and errors in verb conjugation that are distracting.
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About the author
Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire, England in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is author of The House at Midnight and the The Bed I Made.
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