Tuesday - First Chapter - First Paragraph - The Husband's Secret

Each Tuesday, Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea shares the first part of a book that she is reading or thinking about reading.  This week I'm sharing the first few paragraphs of The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty.  This is a re-read for me.  I've read it in print, but I haven't listened to it on audio yet.  The narrator is the wonderful Caroline Lee, and I love her voice.  You've likely either read this book or at least heard of it.  See what you think:

     Poor, poor Pandora.  Zeus sends her off to marry Epimetheus, a not especially bright man she's never even met, along with a mysterious covered jar.  Nobody tells Pandora a word about the jar.  Nobody tells her not to open the jar.  Naturally, she opens the jar.  What else has she got to do?  How was she to know that all those dreadful ills would go whooshing out to plague mankind forevermore, and that the only thing left in the jar would be hope?  Why wasn't there a warning label?  And then everyone's like, Oh Pandora.  Where's your willpower?  You were told not to open that box, you snoopy girl, you typical woman with your insatiable curiosity; now look what you've gone and done.  When for one thing it was a jar, not a box, and for another--how many times does she have to say it?--nobody said a word about not opening it!

Blurb:

My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died. . .

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death.  Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well.  Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother.  Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home.  But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

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I totally enjoyed this book when I read it in print.  The humor is such fun, but the story does get a little serious.  And Caroline Lee's narration, with her great Australian accent, is perfect.  Would you continue reading??  If you've read this book, what did you think?