The Lost Wife by Georgina Lees (HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter)

Life will never be the same again. She will never be the same because she never really knew her husband.

Somewhere in the Peak District, are a woman and a child. Being alone, scared, and persecuted. Can they escape the bad guys?

The novel begins with a love story: Harry and Lea are getting married, but things are not as perfect as they appear. Harry is constantly at work and seems to be concealing something, but what? Lea wonders what her life might be like if she had made a different decision.

A gripping domestic psychological thriller that examines all facets of a relationship, from infatuation, jealousy, control, deception, and ambition to parenthood, friendship, and self-questioning whether what we're doing is right. Is it OK to forego our own happiness in order to make someone else happy?

The plot is conveyed beneath a veil of claustrophobia in this somewhat grim novel since everyone is imprisoned in their own private emotional universe. Even a smidgeon of kindness and childlike innocence fails to untie this Gordian knot.

Overall a good read with many twists and turns.

3/5