Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (HQ)

My kind of book. Full of twists, turns and psychological mind games between husband and wife.

Rock Paper Scissors is a story about a couple who have been married for ten years. Every anniversary they exchange traditional gifts – paper, copper, tin – and each year the wife writes her husband a letter that she never lets him read. A secret record of their marriage, warts and all. By their tenth anniversary, their relationship is in trouble. Sometimes a weekend away can be just what a couple needs to get them back on track, but things aren’t what or who they seem.

The husband suffers from prosopagnosia and he can't recognize faces. Even the face of his wife is a mistery for him. Married couples always think they know their partners better than anyone else – especially when they have a couple of years under their belts – but that doesn’t mean it is true. 

On their weekend away in remoted Scottish hamlet strange things happen and secrets finally start to reveal themselves.

Rock Paper Scissors is all about choices. The character's thoughts are relatable and the conversations between them are very believable and often full of wisdom.

Immensely enjoyable, thrilling, fascinating and clever.

4/5