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You Should Have Known

Written by: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
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Publisher's Summary

Listen to the "rollickingly good literary thriller" and New York Times best seller that's the inspiration for the HBO limited series The Undoing, premiering October 25 and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant (Vanity Fair).

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things: she lives in the very New York apartment in which she was raised, and sends Henry to the school she herself once attended.

Dismayed by the ways in which women delude themselves, Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them. But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations.

Left behind in the wake of a spreading and 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 her child and herself.

©2014 Jean Hanff Korelitz (P)2014 Hachette Audio

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The plot was predictable and was more narrative than plot twists. The characters weren't engaging or fully formed. I'm not sure I'd even try this author again.

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the narrator

I can't tell you about the story, because I can't get past the narrator. it's just too whiny and the overacting is way too much. it's just too irritating to listen to.

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Was an interesting read, captivating in some moments but it droned on a fair bit.

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I had to stop. I can't listen to this reading of the story. My review reflects the audio only, not the content as I have no idea. The reader is putting on voices and it's just overall not great.

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shocking

very good read. shocking.sad and funny all at once. blind trust and blind love together

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should have

interesting story fascinating thought that she wouldn't know even as psychologist.
Loved the book the development of her thoughts and the dealing with her awful situation

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Ugh. I don't know if I can finish...

It's soo long winded. I want to yell 'Get on with it already!'
I'm looking for another book now.

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