MY HUSBAND'S WIFE

by Jane Corry
 
At the other end of the spectrum of writing, this suspenseful beach read will keep you turning the pages with ease.
 
Set in London over the past 25 years, the book switches between two narrators, with a third mystery narrator in brief interludes.  The main two are Lily, a young, newly married solicitor (kind of an English lawyer, but doesn’t usually argue in court), and Carla, a nine-year-old Italian girl living with her mother, far from their family.  It turns out they live in the same building and they form a friendship, so we often get the same events told from both perspectives a la The Affair.
 
Lily is struggling to defend a strange client in a big murder retrial, while also realizing that by marrying her husband after just two weeks of dating, she doesn't really know him very well. Carla is dealing with bullying at school, and the mystery of why her mother would rather spend her evenings “dancing” in the living room with her friend Larry, than with her.
 
Halfway through the book the author jumps about 20 years and every time a mystery is solved, it seems another crops up.  Even with the things you know are going to happen, Corry does a good job of keeping the plot twisting and introducing new mysteries to keep the reader on her toes.  Definitely a fun read!  (Lily)