This firecracker of a novel includes a bonus for many readers: an empathetic look at Skye’s life as a sufferer of OCD and how that condition can affect relationships. Everything collapses, however, when Heather meets tragedy, but that’s just one in a series of twists that will grip readers as they juggle between multiple points of view and time periods, attempt to make sense of unreliable narrators, and are jolted by explosive turns of events. A struggling young woman going nowhere, Heather appears to get on her feet after she takes a nanny job with a well-off family. In the early part of Lovering’s novel, those journal entries alternate with narration from the point of view of Heather, before her marriage to Burke. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.When Burke’s marriage therapist advises him to write a journal to get to know himself better, Burke sets to the task eagerly, describing his dwindling feelings for his wife, Heather, and his passion for his new partner, Skye. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you'll discover that there's more than one way to spin the truth. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past-or will he find his way into her future? On a collision course she doesn't see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke's scheme grows ever more twisted. In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he's happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends.
But now Burke-handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she's met before-says he wants her. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips-she's smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family-she's also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother's death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship.
Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.
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