The Fifth Letter
Four
friends. Five Letters. One Secret.
A
scandalous breakthrough novel from Nicola Moriarty that will leave you asking,
how well do I really know my friends?
I requested a review copy of this book
because I thought the premise sounded so interesting.
Joni, Trina, Deb and Eden have been friends
since school, where Joni had decided they should all be friends because they shared
surnames beginning with the same letter. Now they are adults and they all have
very different lives, but Joni is desperate for them to stay friends so she
organizes a holiday for them to reconnect.
Things start to get out of control when they
all decide to write a letter in which they will reveal a secret. The letters
will be anonymous so that no one will know who has written each one. But one of
the friends writes a second letter – a letter revealing something even darker
than the other four. The writer tries to destroy it, but Joni finds it and is
left wondering which of her friends could be harbouring such a disturbing
secret.
There is plenty of intrigue as the reader
tries to guess who wrote each letter, and then who could possibly have written
the fifth letter. I also liked that it showed the positive sides of female
friendship but didn’t shy away from the negatives – the jealousy, the
competitiveness, the resentment when it appears that life has treated some more
kindly than others.
This is a well paced novel and although it
skips about a bit, taking in different time periods and points of view it doesn’t
leave the reader feeling confused or lost.
A recommended story of friendship, secrets
and what can happen when relationships go really, really wrong.
I received a review copy of
this book from the publishers via Netgalley.
You can find out more here.
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