You Should Have Known, Jean Hanff Korelitz
You Should Have Known, Jean Hanff Korelitz
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You Should Have Known

Bestseller

Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrator: Christina Delaine

Unabridged: 16 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2014


Synopsis

In this "smart and devious" New York Times bestselling thriller, a marriage counselor's relationship begins to unravel when the mother of her son's classmate is murdered (The New York Times). The inspiration for the HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living her best life. 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. 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, leading her to dismantle her life in order to create a new one, lest she allow these disasters to destroy her. 
 

About Jean Hanff Korelitz

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Plot, The Latecomer, You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald Sutherland), Admission (adapted as a film starring Tina Fey), The Devil and Webster, The White Rose, The Sabbathday River and A Jury of Her Peers, as well as Interference Powder, a novel for children. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts Pop-Up Book Groups in which small groups of readers discuss new books with their authors. She lives in New York City with her husband, Irish poet Paul Muldoon.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jane on July 23, 2013

On one hand, I found this book incredibly compelling. On the other, I found it very easy to SKIM, to get to what comes next. I had to restrain myself to read every line. I can't tell if it is because the plot was better than the writing or if I just had too much caffeine, the night I stayed up until......more

Goodreads review by Holly on March 29, 2021

I had a love/hate relationship with this book!! I really wanted to read it because I enjoyed the author's current book, The Plot and I plan to watch the HBO series The Undoing (starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant). I've heard good things! First of all, the pace was very slow! I mean, some mundane d......more

Goodreads review by Karin on June 04, 2014

Yeah, you should've known. I wish there had been more details about the murder. Sure, the narrator didn't want to know the lurid details, but I sure did!......more

Goodreads review by JanB on April 13, 2014

Compulsively readable, well-written, and thought-provoking. Grace is a therapist, married to a pediatric oncologist, and mother of a 12 year old son, Henry. She’s wound very tight, is a snob, and not very likable. The first part of the book is a rather scathing portrayal of Grace’s rarefied world on......more

Goodreads review by Suz on February 07, 2024

Like many of us these days, I stumbled across this title from a screen adaption. Watching first I suppose I formed definite expectations, but happily will say I enjoyed the book more. A therapist in her own little bubble she seems to have it all, perfect job, perfect husband, perfect son, perfect ho......more