Books like The Husband's Secret
Cecilia Fitzpatrick, a Sydney mother who runs her life with Tupperware precision, finds a letter in the attic addressed to her in her husband's handwriting, to be opened only in the event of his death, while he is still very much alive.
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Apples Never Fall
Joy Delaney, newly retired from the tennis school she ran with her husband Stan for fifty years, disappears without her phone, and as police start to look at Stan, their four grown children remember the stranger who turned up on their parents' doorstep one night the year before.
Culpability
When the family minivan, driving itself with seventeen-year-old Charlie behind the wheel, crashes during a trip, the Cassidy-Shaws have to decide who is to blame, while the mother, an expert on the ethics of artificial intelligence, keeps secrets of her own.
The Slap
At a suburban barbecue in Melbourne a man slaps a badly behaved child who isn't his, and eight people who were there tell what happened next.
Freedom
A liberal Minnesota couple and the rock-musician friend who comes between them spend three decades disappointing each other in Bush-era America.
Big Little Lies
Three women in a wealthy Australian seaside community become entangled in a death at a school trivia night, and the investigation reveals the lies underneath their perfect lives.
The Light Between Oceans
On Janus Rock, a lighthouse island off Western Australia in 1926, keeper Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabel, grieving after miscarriages, find a boat washed ashore with a dead man and a crying baby, and Isabel persuades Tom to keep the child as their own.
Little Fires Everywhere
In the planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, the orderly Richardson family rents a house to Mia Warren, an itinerant artist, and her teenage daughter Pearl, and a custody fight over a Chinese American baby divides the town and the two families.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
Stay With Me
Yejide and Akin, a happily married couple in 1980s Nigeria, still have no children after four years, and Akin's family brings home a second wife.
Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.
Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.