Review: What Holly's Husband Did

What Holly's Husband Did by Debbie Viggiano
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What hasn’t Holly’s husband done?! All is revealed at the end, but you’ll have an enjoyable time getting there, and when you do, you’ll gasp!

Holly has been married to dentist Alex for 15 years and they have one teenage daughter Sophie. Last Christmas when Alex popped out to get some milk for the custard, Holly discovered some suggestive texts on Alex’s phone. Every bone in her body was chilled when she read them, and when she confronted him, he explained that it was a patient who was sending the texts, and he was keeping them on his phone in case things escalated. But Holly couldn’t move on and kept looking for signs that her husband was having an affair.

Deciding to take her mind off things, she throws herself head first into planning a surprise 40th birthday party for Alex at the local golf club. That in turn presents more problems.

With the help of her best friends Jeanie and Caro, as well as her childhood friend Jack, Holly decides to seek out the truth…but sometimes it’s a case of “be careful what you wish for.”

When I first started this book, I thought it was going to start with yet another affair by Alex, and Holly is just the doormat and trophy wife who accepts it but moans about it to her friends. This isn’t the case, although I do think Holly portrayed a few doormat tendencies, and I really wanted her to square up to Mum Izzy at the school gates.

I couldn’t warm to Alex, the husband. He seemed really mean to Holly, and the chapter where he described her as boring to another doctor at a Dinner and Dance bought tears to my eyes. How dare he do that in front of her?

The opening chapter was really funny, and I knew from that, that I was settling in for a fun few hours of reading.

A lovely, funny read which, if you’re like me, will make you gasp with the twist at the end!

*I received an advance copy of this book in return for a honest and open review*

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