What book was this?
February 17, 2024 5:34 PM Subscribe
I read a novel set in contemporary Brooklyn some years ago that was I think in the "women's fiction" genre (though I hate that term!) in which towards the end of the book, the wife, who is a sympathetic character, sets up her abusive husband to die by a stroke acquired as a result of diving without properly decompressing. I am hoping someone can help me remember the title of the book.
I think it was an "ensemble" cast of characters novel, and of the plot lines featured a young married couple buying (or inheriting?) an amazing beautiful apartment somewhere in posh brownstone Brooklyn. The wealthy husband (some kind of finance guy, I think) becomes increasingly erratic and abusive, and eventually, towards the end of the book, the wife, who loves the apartment, engineers his death by manipulating a sequence of events where, essentially, he goes diving after not decompressing properly, and suffers a stroke. She gets to keep the apartment, and there is no suspicion cast on her. I think maybe she is implicitly encouraged to get rid of her husband by another character (possibly an elderly relative, or a real estate agent. There was a lot of New York "real estate porn" kind of descriptions of the apartment.
I was sure it was an Amy Sohn book, however, flipping through her books that I have, I now don't think it was by her.
Does anyone know what book I am thinking of?
I think it was an "ensemble" cast of characters novel, and of the plot lines featured a young married couple buying (or inheriting?) an amazing beautiful apartment somewhere in posh brownstone Brooklyn. The wealthy husband (some kind of finance guy, I think) becomes increasingly erratic and abusive, and eventually, towards the end of the book, the wife, who loves the apartment, engineers his death by manipulating a sequence of events where, essentially, he goes diving after not decompressing properly, and suffers a stroke. She gets to keep the apartment, and there is no suspicion cast on her. I think maybe she is implicitly encouraged to get rid of her husband by another character (possibly an elderly relative, or a real estate agent. There was a lot of New York "real estate porn" kind of descriptions of the apartment.
I was sure it was an Amy Sohn book, however, flipping through her books that I have, I now don't think it was by her.
Does anyone know what book I am thinking of?
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