Woman with a Secret

By Sophie Hannah,

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Published in the UK as The Telling Error

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She's a wife.

She's a mother.

She isn't who you think she…

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Nicki's obsessive internal monologue seems to trap her somewhere between fantasy and reality.

But isn't this a truth about life in general? How much do we rationalize our desires as we navigate the world outside our heads?

Her desires keep her from seeing key aspects of her own personality. As she argues with herself in meticulous detail, so do the police who suspect her of murder. The reader must figure out to what extent Nicki is a reliable narrator, as well as whether the police's logic is sound.

What I relate to in this book is that I've sometimes learned…

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