Those Other Women - Nicola Moriarty

Description

Poppy never thought her husband wanted children - especially not with her best friend.

When Poppy arrives home to find her husband and best friend sitting side by side at her kitchen table, she thinks they're planning her a birthday surprise . . .

Little does she know, they're waiting to tell her about their affair. And worse, that they're having a baby.

Now everywhere she goes, mothers are reminding her of their betrayal.

So when Poppy meets a woman who wants to help her fight back, it seems like a good idea.

But how well does she know her?

Is she there to help . . . or does she have an agenda of her own?

Review

I really enjoyed reading this book - so much so I finished it in a few sittings. I thought the characters in this second book by the author were much more developed than in the "Fifth Letter", we even get to read a kind of diary that one of characters is writing, and all I could think was how do you go about writing something this realistic?

The blurb for the book is really only the tip of the iceberg as to what happens in this book. It explores closed Facebook groups and what goes on in them (moles and all) - and in this instance how it can spill over into real life situations. I thought the author handled it all incredibly well, especially as running alongside it were a couple of other equally intriguing story lines. Basically a tale of he said, she said, what you think you saw and all those other tales of miscommunication and day to day life. We read all the time about people who are braver online to voice an opinion than in real life. Yes, there were some bitchy characters - but then there are in life too!

It was all there in black and white and really how could anyone get it all so wrong? - but as readers, we too were sucked in. When you begin to see the story lines from all sides - you realise you just never know the truth. I wasn't expecting the author to tell the story from different characters viewpoints, so when it happened it made it all that more interesting.

I don't do spoilers so I won't elaborate other than to say there was another storyline covered here that I don't think I've read in this type of book before, it just made the book so much more thought provoking than it already was.

I'm giving this book five out of five stars and my thanks to Penguinrandomhouse for a copy of the book for review.

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