The Split: The most gripping, twisty thriller of the year (A Richard & Judy Book Club pick)

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In this case, Lucas cheated for YEARS and apparently said some awful things in those texts (though we didn’t get to see it). She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he’s out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her. Her daily life revolves around the school run, walking the dog and those ever-looming publishing deadlines. On October 12, 2015, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula, and Haley Lu Richardson were added to the cast. Synopsis: For Esther, after two decades with Lucas, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, and predictably younger lover.

It is another when she has you so ensnared in her web that you become determined to beat her to the big reveal. Then Lucas faces a shattering accusation at the same time as their children Dylan and Lily, start to implode. It’s suspenseful and fascinating and makes you forget all about the Antarctic opening—until we jump forward again in time. While Esther’s life is something of a constant struggle – she’s so easy to identify with for any single woman of a certain age – Lucas’ star has continued to rise. My rating reflects the fact that this book kept me reading and it’s sticking in my mind after the back, but this is one of those books that left me very unsettled.

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Two great main characters: Ester is strong, stronger than she thinks and her family are her focus in life, even to the extent of being with her ex, Lucas, who is the opposite, a self obsessed and rather conceited man who needs a good talking to! The Split is an astute and involving domestic drama that is perceptive, engrossing and so believable readers will find themselves completely wrapped up in Esther and Lucas’ story. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. I read so much that it was good to settle to a book and not care it took me a few days to read, I didn’t want it to end and to say it was left on a cliffhanger is true but maybe not as you would expect…….

It is also actually fantastic timing because, while the review was written, I didn’t have an introduction because I had no earthly clue as to how I was going to start. It is a totally addictive nail-bitingly tense thriller which centres around the psychology of it’s main character, Felicity.

Lara Pulver will play Kate, "a leading child psychologist whose arrival adds a whole new layer of complexity to Morgan’s multi-layered examination of divorce and modern marriage". For Esther, it’s proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions of his gorgeous, intelligent, and predictably younger lover. And it looks like there's more chaos to come in The Split season 3, with first-look images hinting at trouble between Nicola Walker’s Hannah and husband Stephen Mangan’s Nathan, who complicates their divorce proceedings by bringing a new woman into the mix this time around. Good person, loyal friend, dedicated mother and wife who helped her husband dedicate himself only to what he wanted, while she was left with the heavy work.

Now not perhaps the opening of a strong review you might say but that uncomfy feeling kept me reading page after page as Esther and Lucas navigated their post divorce life with two grown up children, Esther’s dabbling in the modern dating scene, Lucas trying to keep his reputation in tact as well as moving on with the glamorous Heidi…. There is someone in her life that she is very afraid of and she worries that he will find her here, even so far from the mainland.

I think with a more interesting storyline, it could have been great but unfortunately it just wasn't for me. This is a complex crime thriller which is exceptionally plotted out and kept me on the edge of my seat. Also writing for The Guardian, Steve Rose had strong praise for McAvoy, opining that the actor "does a fine and fearless job of selling his character's varied personae".Just as you think you know the nature of what this story about, Bolton sharply swerves from this path and takes us back in time, nine months, to Cambridge to a fragile and skittish Felicity, having to confront large periods of time where she has absolutely no idea what happened and what she did.