The Marriage Lie
- Kimberly Belle
- Apr 17, 2017
- 2 min read
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, from the very start it captured my interest. In the opening chapter we meet Iris and Will at home, loving each other, discussing starting a family and rushing around as Will goes off to the airport to catch his flight while Iris goes off to the school where she works as a counsellor. Very quickly we realise that a plane has come down after taking off from Atlanta that morning. Iris has a sudden gut wrench but then feels less concerned on learning that the plane was headed for Seattle, and her husband's flight was to Orlando. Iris leaves several messages on Will's phone, contacts the hotel he should by now have checked in to and now starts to panic.
At this point I had all sorts of panicky emotions rising up to my throat as it brought back sickening memories of when I thought I'd lost my husband at sea. It's an all consuming panic where rational thought leaves you and you just need answers immediately. Disbelief and reality are misaligned, the outside world spinning in the opposite direction to your spiralling emotions. I'm pleased to tell you that after three days of the most sickening feeling of loss, my husband contacted me and was safe and sound.
From here, chapter 3, it becomes clear that Will was on the fated plane and Iris is thrown into a spiral of grief coupled with why he told her he was flying to Orlando when he was on the passenger manifest to Seattle, why the elaborate lies about the conference that didn't exist and just what was his connection to Seattle nearly 3,000 miles from where he said he was going?
Iris has a difficult time coping with her grief and with her husband's lies. What were his reasons, did he have another woman, another family, can she forgive him and what it's done to her memory of him? Where did he get the money to pay for the Cartier ring he gave her the night before his fated flight when they were financially broke?
The story is full of suspense right to the very end, it's gripping, tense and very well written and I would certainly read more by this author.
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