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Title: The Love Of My Life

Author: Rosie Walsh

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Mantle

Publication Date: 1st June 2022

Rating: 5 Stars

I have held you every night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house.

Who are you?

Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she’d do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie.

And she might just have got away with it, if it weren’t for her husband’s job. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best – reading and writing about her life. But as he starts to unravel her past, he discovers the woman he loves doesn’t really exist. Even her name is fictitious.

When the very darkest moments of Emma’s past life finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . . But first, she must tell him about the love of her other life.

Rosie Walsh is the mistress of the unexpected twist, and once again she managed to completely and utterly outfox me with this book.

It was wonderful, I loved seeing how the layers unravelled until you are finally left with the truth. 

I loved Leo and Emma's love story, but even more so, I loved seeing the layers of deception, and discovering alongside Leo, the truth about Emma's past. 

After all how well do you really know your wife. Can you really be sure there aren't some massive secrets to be uncovered. 

Once this book got going it ramped up until I just had to keep reading and reading to find out what would happen next.

It was fabulous.

Thank you to Mantle and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.