Four girls who because of some strange connections became best friends. All the girls' last name started with a C, and they are all Scorpios. Weird but that is how their story begins. Now all the girls are grown up and some with families of their own. The girls, Deb, Joni, Trina, and Eden, have always tried to get together for a girls weekend but the last few years it hasn't worked out.
Finally, they are on their girl's weekend. They decide it would be a fun thing to write letters and one by one they would read them out loud and try and figure out who wrote it. So after a night of drinking they all sit down and write their letters. There should be four right, but there are five. Who wrote two letters and why?
Deb's job is insurance fraud, Joni is a staff writer, Eden when she is not waitressing, she plays piano at the bar and Trina teaching sports at her old high school. All are married; all have children except for Joni. Joni and her husband have tried but no luck. But none of them seem to be happy with the way their lives have turned out.
So when the fifth letter is read, none of them want to say they wrote it. This letter caused a huge fight among the girls. When the girls return from their weekend, they stay away from each other until one night they all get together and finally it comes to blows.
THE FIFTH LETTER is an excellent book about forever friendships. Nicola Moriarty really gets into the story line about these four women. From high school through adult life, these girls always were close. Nicola Moriarty shows how even though you think you know someone, one little secret changes everything. I know that sometimes you think you are doing the right thing with keeping a secret, but secrets have a way of always come out in the end.
Nicola Moriarty captures at least I feel the relationship of best friends. I also loved the way she described their lives, happy and sad. If you have one best friend or more, it is always a relationship to cherish. THE FIFTH LETTER is an excellent read for any time of the year.
A fun vacation game turns destructive, exposing dark
secrets, deeply buried grudges, and a shocking betrayal in
Nicola Moriarityβs intriguing debut.
Four friends . . .
Joni, Deb, Eden, and Trina have been best friends since high
school, sharing a bond that has seen them through their
teenage years and into adulthood. But now, time and
circumstance is starting to pull them apart as careers,
husbands, and babies get in the way. As their yearly
vacation becomes less of a priorityβat least for three of
the womenβhow can Joni find a way to draw the four of them
back together?
Four secrets . . .
During a laughter and wine-filled night, the women dare one
another to write anonymous letters, spilling their deepest,
darkest secrets. But the fun game turns devastating,
exposing cracks in their lives and the friendship they
share. Each letter is a dark confession revealing shocking
information. A troubled marriage? A substance abuse problem?
A secret pregnancy? A heartbreaking diagnosis?
Five letters . . .
Late on one of their last nights together, after the other
three have gone to bed, Joni notices something in the
fireplaceβa burnt, crumpled, nearly destroyed, sheet of
paper that holds the most shattering revelation of all. It
is a fifth letterβa hate-filled rant that exposes a vicious,
deeply hidden grudge that has festered for decades. But who
wrote it? Which one of them has seethed with resentment all
these years? What should Joni do?
Best friends are supposed to keep your darkest secrets. But
the revelations Joni, Deb, Eden and Trina have shared will
ripple through their lives with unforeseen consequences . .
. and things will never be the same.
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