The Mother-in-Law
Sally Hepworth
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The Mother-in-Law
Sally Hepworth
1 ratings • 1 reviews
Someone once told me that you have two families in your life - the one you are born into and the one you choose. Yes, you may get to choose your partner, but you don't choose your mother-in-law. The cackling mercenaries of fate determine it all. From the moment Lucy met Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana is exquisitely polite, but Lucy knows, even after marrying Oliver, that they'll never have the closeness she'd been hoping for. But who could fault Diana? She was a pillar of the community, an advocate for social justice, the matriarch of a loving family. Lucy had wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law. That was ten years ago. Now, Diana has been found dead, leaving a suicide note. But the autopsy reveals evidence of suffocation. And everyone in the family is hiding something... From the bestselling author of The Family Next Door comes a new page-turner about that trickiest of relationships.
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- my frustration with this book is it was not a thriller/lacked tension. Lucy is set up as another point of view to be either the murderer or the detective but was neither? it felt removed
-I didn't really care about any of the characters and Diana especially came across as quite cold / disconnected with a few nonsensical moments too (emphasizing the Something Borrowed at the wedding, the turning off of the baby monitor Etc)
- by the time we grow to like/care it is too far into the book and we needed some good character development
what was the point of Diana's youth/ pregnancy? to show the hardships she went through? her love for Tom? I didn't feel like the love for Tom was well established, and her son Ollie’s paternity was irrelevant..
- so much of this book could have been resolved with conversation and communication!
- I agree with some reviewers that overall this was a lukewarm story, it had too few suspects/clues
- Diana was more complex than Lucy but this was a disjointed picture... maybe because so much time was covered over the course of the book?
- Diana came across as unfeeling toward her family but wonderful to refugees?
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