Loving Husband You'd trust him with your life, wouldn't you...?
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Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.<b>Wow. This one will keep your bedside light on until the small hours - it's unputdownable.</b>
Richard & Judy
Kent is <b>an extremely fine writer</b> and makes terrific use in particular of the Fens' waterlogged, empty landscape in which secrets can be easily buried if never quite forgotten...<b>Terrifyingly good</b>
Metro
Shocking in the extreme. <i>The Loving Husband</i> is <b>a twisted psychological thriller</b>
Sun
<b>Atmospheric</b> and <b>psychologically acute</b> throughout
Sunday Times
Christobel Kent is <b>one of our most assured thriller writers</b>. <i>The Loving Husband</i> is <b>a perfectly paced and plotted novel</b>
Good Housekeeping
Firmly in the currently fashionable "domestic noir" genre, but this is no catchpenny trend-chasing; <b>Kent effortlessly rises above other entries in the field</b> . . . the familiar is confronted and inverted and Kent's ace in the hole is her <b>keen penetration of the characters' psychology</b>, particularly that of beleaguered heroine Fran
- Barry Forshaw, Financial Times
<b>Unsettling</b> domestic thriller . . . Spooky and <b>skilfully written</b>, this is <b>one to race through </b>
Sunday Mirror
Fans of <b>a good </b>old-fashioned <b>page-turner</b> will love this
Closer
A finely-crafted series of flashbacks . . . <b>excellent thriller</b> . . .<b> tense, dense, extremely well-plotted</b> and <b>beautifully written</b>, this is a <b>fine example of the <i>Domestic Noir </i>genre</b>
Sunday Irish Independent
A<b> tautly plotted</b> trail of red herrings, scares and eventual revelations that <b>keep the <i>Gone Girl</i> fever-type buzz alive </b>
- Jon Wise, Weekend Sport
A <b>clever</b> and <b>claustrophobic</b> tale
Literary Review
[A] <b>compulsive psychological thriller</b> about family, secrets and the lies we tell ourselves...<b>With a distinctive style and menacing plot, Kent delivers a mesmerising read</b>
Peterborough Telegraph
Brilliant. A <b>spooky, gripping and affecting</b> story
Louise Doughty, author of APPLE TREE YARD on The Crooked House
An <b>utterly compulsive psychological thriller</b>. I loved it
S. J. Watson, author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP on The Crooked House
<b>Echoes of Christie and du Maurier</b> in this fine thriller
Sunday Times on The Crooked House
Oh my goodness - <b>what a book! So beautifully tense</b> . . . just glorious
Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO, on The Crooked House
<b>claustrophobic</b>... a <b>compelling </b>story that <b>twists</b> and turns
Essex Life
A truly <b>chilling</b>, <b>absorbing </b>read'
Kirkus
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
'Wow. This one will keep your bedside light on until the small hours - it's unputdownable.'
Richard & Judy
For fans of Apple Tree Yard and The Silent Wife, The Loving Husband draws readers into a marriage where nothing is as it seems...
Fran Hall and her husband Nathan have moved with their two children to a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens - a chance to get away from London and have a fresh start.
But when Fran wakes one night to find Nathan gone, she makes a devastating discovery. As questions about her husband and her relationships start to mount, Fran's life begins to spiral out of control.
What is she hiding from the police about her marriage, and does she really know the man she shared her bed with?
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AND SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
For fans of Apple Tree Yard and The Silent Wife, The Loving Husband draws readers into a marriage where nothing is as it seems...