The Loving Husband

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Be careful, Fran," the man said quietly. "About what you think you know." In a dilapidated farmhouse out in the vast waterlogged plains of the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her babys cries one February night and finds the bed empty beside her. Her husband, Nathan, is gone.

Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery that upends her marriage and any semblance of safety. As she tries desperately to make sense of what happened to Nathan, Fran is forced to delve dangerously into the undercurrents of his claustrophobic hometown and question how well she knew him in the first place. Fran, increasingly isolated, grows paranoidbut Nathan isnt the only one hiding something.

Though she cant tell a soul, Fran is shielding a damning secret of her own a hazy, dreamlike memory from the night of Nathans disappearance that might be the key to it all. From the bestselling author of The Crooked House comes an utterly gripping psychological thriller spanning the traditions of Daphne du Maurier and S. J.

Watson. Christobel Kents The Loving Husband is spooky and skillfully written, dragging readers deep into the unsettling world of the Fens and into a marriage of half-truths and past lives, where no one can be trustedespecially not your spouse.

Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four stepsiblings, before reading English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and TEFL teaching, and has lived in Italy, where she has set several novels, including The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and five children.