What you would do if your husband became another person overnight?
When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was for ever. Theirs would be the perfect future.
In sickness and in health.
However, after a night out with his twin brother, Graeme, a terrible injury leaves Alex with permanent brain damage. In a single moment the man she married is transformed into someone new. Someone who has forgotten how to love her. And someone Molly isn’t sure she can ever love again.
From the blurb of My Husband the Stranger, a contemporary family drama by Rebecca Done.
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My Review
My Husband the Stranger is an intense family drama and love story narrated by Molly and Alex, in two timeframes, before and three years after, Alex’s accident, which led to serious physical and emotional changes.
The reader receives a great deal of insight into both characters and their relationship, but there is a third dark and troubled character, Alex’s twin brother, Graeme.
It’s a contemporary domestic drama, which contrasts Alex’s dysfunctional family and Molly’s supportive parents. Other important topics brought up are parenting, sibling rivalry, friendship and the hardships of contemporary life.
My Husband the Stranger is also and overall a love story. Molly loves Alex, but she’s having financial and emotional difficulties coping with her husband’s changed and unpredictable personality, after his accident.
Molly literally has to learn to live with a new man and cope with a depressing job in a small town, far away from her family and friends in London.
Molly is the strongest and most admirable person in the novel. Her caring, determined and patient character ensures her struggle, against all odds, to preserve her marriage and help Alex through his long and challenging recovery.
The conclusion was satisfactory and feel-good, which surprised me because there was a lot of suspense and tension throughout, so I kept expecting a dark twist, which never came.
In spite of the lack of surprising plot twists, the novel had a steady pace and the prose flowed smoothly. I listened to the whole novel over two days, because I was invested in the characters and the storyline.
I will definitely be looking out for more novels by Rebecca Done.
The narrators of the audio version were excellent.
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Ohhhh this sounds right up my alley!! Thanks for the review 🙂
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Courtney
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Sounds really interesting – I hadn’t come across it before. Thanks Lucy!
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