‘My Sister’s Husband’ by Nicola Marsh is a story of sisters. Two sets of sisters all intertwined with each other make for an exhilarating and suspenseful book. A dual timeline story that takes us back and then to the present day to show us that history may be ready to repeat itself shockingly.
Brooke and Freya are sisters, they were brought up with their cousin Lizzie by their Aunt Alice. Brooke has been gone for eleven years and has had a complicated relationship with Freya that has carried through the years. Brooke decides to return home when she receives an invitation to Freya’s wedding, and Lizzie lets her know how ill Aunt Alice is. Brooke arrives home and finds a few things have changed, Aunt Alice is a shadow of the woman she remembers due to early onset of Dementia and the bigger surprise is that Freya has a daughter, Hope. To top it all off, she realises she knows Freya’s husband to be a face from the past.
The book shows us the past and the type of relationship Alice and her sister Diana, Brooke and Freyas mother, had, then, we can begin to understand and maybe start unravelling the plethora of emotions and jealousy between these sisters in the present day.
The story of Alice and Diana is an engrossing one and I got sucked into all the characters lives here. Full of surprising twists and little snippets of truths being dropped slowly but surely throughout and I enjoyed every revelation as it came. The shocks keep coming and you don’t have a clue what to expect anymore. There are that many secrets, lies and way too much jealousy between siblings so it makes for such a juicy, enjoyable domestic drama.
Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for the copy of the book for my review today.
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