The only thing he is hiding from his wife is the visits his brother Richard makes to the house when Mira is out of town working. In between this we see things from Matthew’s point of view. Yes, she chooses to stalk her neighbour, whilst of course keeping this a secret from her husband, who is likely to worry far too much that she needs to go back to the doctor and have her medication altered. Hen convinced that Matthew is in fact hiding some huge dark secret does what anyone would do in such a situation. The book then takes on what could be a farcical turn, but doesn’t quite.
So they go and in one of those weird coincidences that occur in real life as well as novels, Hen makes a connection between Matthew and a victim of a murder who lived close to them in their previous home.
Hen, who has suffered with her mental health isn’t keen but Lloyd wants them to get out and mix. Their neighbours Mira and Matthew invite them for a dinner party. They love their new house, they’ve left behind what appears to have been a few bad memories and Hen is now following her artistic path as an illustrator in the new neighbourhood. Hen (short for Henrietta) Mazur and her husband Lloyd have recently moved house to a small suburb in Boston. In Before She Knew Him there are unlikeable characters and to make things even harder the author has created a world, like he has in his previous novels, that is unlikely to exist but just likely enough to make the fiction only too believable. I’ve, in my more contemplative moments wondered why I am so happy to read about unlikeable characters, and I’ve decided that the authors who create these to populate their books tend to have other dynamics going on that make the likeableness of the character a bonus rather than a hinderance. Often us booklovers are drawn to compare notes on the kinds of characters we like with broadly speaking divisions, those characters we like, we’d be happy to have them as friends, and those that you actively dislike.
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