The Last to Know

by Melissa Hill

[wyvernfriend]

Kept me guessing.

The story opens with a proposal of marriage. The three main women in one part of the story are three very different characters. Eve is a housewife whose partner doesn't seem to appreciate how much she really does. Sam is a writer trying to figure out if she wants to marry the guy who wants her to devote her life to him and abandon her writing and Anne is a teacher, engaged for a long while to a man who seems to like her but she's not sure that she loves her.

And then there's the framing story, that of Brooke, an aquisitions editor for an Australian imprint, trying to work out how all this works.

I originally thought that this framing device was actually nothing to do with the story but it does and how it does is very interesting.

I liked it, excepting the fact that it kept me up finishing it!