Her Guilty Secret: An absolutely gripping page-turner about friendship and secrets

Her Guilty Secret is all about secrets , those you keep to protect someone and those you keep to to not only hide the truth but protect yourself. Its about loyalty, friendship and family. Four college friends get together for a weekend retreat /reunion . People change after 20 years but does friendship? All four of them have their own problems with family and all have kept a secret in one way or another. The pages will turn fast as you learn to love these ladies and admire the strength of their relationship.

I absolutely loved this book! Four college friends get together for a girls weekend years after college. They all have different lives and their own secrets. Can they and their friendship survive the weekend? I loved the four characters, Ivy, Ada, Elise, and Libby. Each has their own story and hardship that they have carried with them. Without close friends like they were in college, they have to handle it alone. I think this is a great story of friendship and the importance of having good friends.

I absolutely loved Emily Cavanagh’s previous novel Everybody Lies, (which still plays around in my head) so I couldn’t wait for her next release. When the opportunity presented itself, I couldn’t jump any higher at the chance to read an advanced copy. Was the magic still there that I loved in Everybody Lies?… Yes it was! Her Guilty Secret is a well plotted tale that delves deep into the friendship between Elise, Ivy, Libby and Ada, as they navigate their own lives whist trying to hang on to the friendship they shared during their university days. A weekend away to reconnect is just what they need to escape their everyday lives but, it could well end up tearing them all apart. Each chapter is told via the perspective of each of the women and gives great insight into who they were and who they have become. Each dealing with the hands that have been dealt as topics of motherhood, deceit, lies, grief, death, divorce, postpartum depression, are covered in detail. To quote from the book “Life had ground them down too, yet here they all were, still intact, still some version of themselves, even if not entirely who they’d once been”. As the title teases, I was eagerly awaiting to find out “the secret” and from whom it was going to come from but, when it was finally revealed, I was surprised to realise that it wasn’t the secret that was the pillar that held this story up, it was the story of friendship that did. Her Guilty Secret has been beautifully written and the pages just turn themselves. It made me think of my own friendships from high school. One in particular that lasted for a number of years since that time but, eventually faded away as our lives took different paths. Some things you are better off letting go but, still having the fond memories remain. Emily Cavanagh has done an outstanding job with this book. Addictive and thought provoking, it will certainly have you caught up and invested in the story and its characters. It was an absolute pleasure to read and review Her Guilty Secret, which I highly recommend.