You Should Have Known
In this "smart and devious" New York Times bestselling thriller, a marriage counselor's relationship begins to unravel when the mother of her son's classmate is murdered (The New York Times). The inspiration for the HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living her best life. Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice, her days are full of familiar things. Grace is also the author of a book You Should Have Known, in which she cautions women to really hear what men are trying to tell them.
But weeks before the book is published a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only an ongoing chain of terrible revelations, leading her to dismantle her life in order to create a new one, lest she allow these disasters to destroy her.
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Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz has built a reputation as a writer who knows how to draw readers into the uneasy space between truth and deception, where ambition collides with morality and secrets refuse to stay buried. Her novels often unfold like literary puzzles, inviting readers to question not just her characters’ choices but their own assumptions about storytelling itself.
Born and raised in New York, Korelitz studied at Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge, before settling into a career that bridges both literary and popular fiction. While she has written across genres, her breakout novel The Plot brought her widespread recognition in 2021. The book followed a struggling writer who takes a student’s idea and spins it into a bestselling novel, only to find himself haunted by accusations of theft. Its success introduced many readers to her sharp eye for character and her ability to turn the act of writing itself into a suspense story.
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