Review: The Stranger's Wife by Anna-Lou Weatherley #BookonTour #Bookouture #NetGalley

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Beth and Cath are leaving their husbands.

This is a story about two very different women.

One is wealthy and having an affair with a man who gives her the kind of love that her cold, detached husband does not.

One is living hand to mouth, suffering at the hands of a violent partner who would rather see her dead than leave him.

You may think you know these women already and how their lives will unfold.

Beth will live happily ever after with her little girl and her soulmate.

Cath will go back to her abusive husband.

And these two women will never cross paths.

But you will be wrong.

On the 3.15pm train from London to Bristol, Beth and Cath are about to meet and discover they share one shocking thing in common.

A clever, engrossing and absolutely unputdownable page-turner of a read about what really lies beneath the surface of a marriage. Fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train will be hooked on The Stranger’s Wife.

Anna-Lou began her career as a dancer but a moped accident in Ibiza put paid to those aspirations and so she went back to her first and one true love – writing! She re-trained as a journalist, specializing mainly in women’s interest and celebrity, becoming the Editor of J-17 and Smash Hits as well as writing for a host of women’s magazines.

Anna-Lou has written three Adult Fiction titles – Vengeful Wives and Wicked Wives, both published by Avon in the UK and Bookouture in the US and Canada and Pleasure Island published by Bookouture.

To find out more about Anna's novels, go to https://www.facebook.com/annalouweatherleyauthor/ or follow https://twitter.com/annaloulondon on Twitter.

The Stranger's Wife By Anna-Lou Weatherley 
Review by Heidi Lynn's Book Reviews

First, I want to thank Anna-Lou Weatherley, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.

The turn of events in Anna-Lou Weatherley’s The Stranger’s Wife is more shocking than something ripped from the headlines. It was totally gripping that sucked me in from the prologue. However, throughout the whole book I am dying to know what the heck happened to Marta! I think I must have yelled at the book a few times saying when will we find out! Of course, she saves the best for last.

This is an incredibly intense book that features a lot of subjects that are taboo-but need to be talked about more in books. If you are looking for a light read this is not one of them.

There is one particular scene where I had a very hard time getting through reading it. Anna wrote that scene with incredible emotion and passion for a very difficult issue. I commend her for writing about how bad domestic abuse can get. However, the outcome of one part of this story had me bawling in tears for this character and the loss that she suffered. I needed not wanted to jump into this book and hug her to console her. Anna-Lou goes above and beyond with this topic that no other author has. This part of the book however may trigger some readers if you have gone through something like this. Please keep this in mind if you choose to read this book.

I did get upset with one storyline where the couple was divorcing and the father used the daughter to falsely accuse his separated wife’s boyfriend of sexual abuse.  Bribing a kid to come between the two parents in my book is so wrong. As an adult child of divorced parents, I kind of put through that. Trust me it was not fun nor fair. However, it was relevant to the story.