Book Review: My Husband’s Wife
Title: My Husband’s Wife
Author: Alice Feeney
Length: 310 pages
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Plot Summary: An artist on the verge of her big break finds her world upended when she returns from a run to discover that nothing about her home is as it should be. A woman who looks just like her is inside, and her husband insists that the stranger is his wife. Meanwhile, another thread of the story follows a woman in London whose inheritance leads her to a secluded seaside house, a mysterious clinic, and a web of secrets tied to fate, identity, and deception. As the two timelines converge, buried truths begin to surface in a tightly wound thriller where appearances are dangerously unreliable.
Review: The number of twists in this novel is absolutely wild! What impressed me most was Alice Feeney’s skillful handling of unreliable narrators. Many thrillers attempt this narrative device, but few succeed in making every perspective truly ambiguous. Here, each narrator feels genuinely unreliable, and that uncertainty keeps the reader guessing until the very last page.
Beyond the clever structure and constant surprises, I was struck by the quiet lesson beneath all the deceit and tension: live every day as if it’s your first. It’s an unexpected piece of wisdom in a thriller, and I find myself returning to that thought often.
Rating: 4/5
