Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2023
Cover design Alissa Dinallo
Cover images from Shutterstock
What a clever book this is! The story of a young woman’s affair with an older married man is told in the first person by Hera.
Madeleine Gray – Green Dot
Jess Kitching – how to destroy your husband
Kingsley Publishers, South Africa, 2022
Cover design not acknowledged
What makes this thriller, Jess Kitching’s second book, so very unsettling and disturbing is the utter familiarity of the characters and their world – two young primary school teachers (Cassie and Tara), a teachers’ aide (Debbie), a small circle of close female friends (Alisha, Laney and Lily), a fiancé (Jamie), his parents and sisters.