YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN/THE UNDOING
David E. Kelley has adapted YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN as a limited series for HBO, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland, Noah Jupe and Lily Rabe. The series will air in spring, 2020
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The Thriller We're Already Obsessed With - Jean Hanff Korelitz, the author of "Admission" -- a college-admissions novel made into the 2013 movie starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd -- returns with a potential blockbuster about a Manhattan therapist who discovers her husband of 20 years is a sociopath.
It's almost impossible to put down Jean Hanff Korelitz's riveting new novel for the first 200 pages as it dismantles the comfortable existence of a couples therapist over the course of a few nightmarish weeks.
A provocative thriller.
This excellent literary mystery by the author of 2009’s Admission unfolds with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. Therapist Grace Reinhart Sachs is about to embark on a publicity blitz to promote her buzzed-about book on why relationships fail, You Should Have Known. In the meantime, she cares for her 12-year-old son, Henry, who attends the same private school she went to as a child. Grace also treasures her loving relationship with her longtime husband Jonathan, a pediatric cancer doctor at a prestigious hospital.
Korelitz does not disappoint as she chronicles the emotional unraveling of her heroine in this gripping saga…A cut above your average who-is-this-stranger-in-my-marriage-bed novel, “You Should Have Known’’ transforms itself at certain moments from a highly effective thriller into a nuanced novel of family, heritage, identity, and nurture.
An unputdownably deft vivisection of Manhattan’s upper social strata.
This consuming, expertly plotted thriller moves along at a slow burn, building up to shocking revelations about Grace’s past and ending with a satisfying twist on her former relationship mantra; ‘doubt can be a gift’
A new literary mystery steeped in Manhattan, from "Admission" author Jean Hanff Korelitz, is a perfect brew for late winter.
When Her Patients Cry Over Men, She Tells Them, 'You Should Have Known.' And Then It's Her Turn.
Tempt the gods with smug self-righteousness and they will deliver a windfall of tragedy, as witness in Jean Hanff Korelitz’s rollickingly good literary thriller…Korelitz writes intimately and engagingly about a social strata few are privy to, but the ugliness is very familiar
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s fifth novel is a tightly-wound page-turner in which life-altering revelations unfold at a perfect pace, forcing its protagonist to face a series of ugly truths about the man she married.
This excellent literary mystery by the author of 2009’s Admission unfolds with authentic detail in a rarified contemporary Manhattan. Therapist Grace Reinhart Sachs is about to embark on a publicity blitz to promote her buzzed-about book on why relationships fail, You Should Have Known. In the meantime, she cares for her 12-year-old son, Henry, who attends the same private school she went to as a child. Grace also treasures her loving relationship with her longtime husband Jonathan, a pediatric cancer doctor at a prestigious hospital.
