You Should Have Known: coming soon as The Undoing on HBO and Sky Atlantic - Softcover

Korelitz, Jean Hanff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571307531 ISBN 13: 9780571307531

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

Synopsis

'A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down.' Daisy Goodwin

A New York Times bestseller

Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on.

But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out, and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, a missing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for herself and her child.

About this title

Review:

A great psychological thriller ... I couldn't put it down., Daisy Goodwin

Korelitz has managed to combine a nail-biting narrative with an astute exploration into why the people we lie to most are ourselves ... What a winning combination this is: highly recommended for Gone Girl fans who will have been disappointed by most of the other lame knock-offs currently on offer., Evening Standard

You Should Have Known occupies similar territory to Gone Girl or The Husband's Secret, domestic suspense novels built on the universal fear that we might not know those closest to us as well as we think. Though it begins as a sharp comedy of manners around the lives of New York's super rich, the tone quickly grows darker as the tension mounts. The result is a witty, often insightful examination of marriage with the pace of a psychological thriller., Stephanie Merritt, Observer

'This gripping psychological thriller had me in its thrall from page one ... A brilliant addition to the Oops-I-Married-a-Sociopath genre, started by Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.', Metro

A powerful, addictive read and a hugely satisfying and accomplished novel that resonates long after the final page., Jill Dawson

The most enjoyable kind of book: a beautifully written, insightful novel with fully realised characters and a plot that thrills all the way to the end. It kept me up far too late!, Lucie Whitehouse, author of Before We Met

The pages get turned thick and fast ... a very entertaining read., Daily Mail

Chick noir/marriage thrillers/domestic noir - whatever you want to call them - are
having a moment ... With You Should Have Known, Jean Hanff Korelitz has grasped the genre firmly with both hands, but at the same time made it uniquely her own ... significantly superior domestic noir.

, Independent

It certainly kept me up at night., Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph

The thriller we're already obsessed with., Entertainment Weekly

Book Description:

A smart, addictive and psychologically acute novel about what we think we know, what we should have known, and what we choose to ignore

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571307531
• ISBN 13: 9780571307531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448