Author: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Publication Date: 8 March 2022
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Page Count: 336
Dates Read: 4 March
Reading Method: Physical (thank you to the publisher!)
Review
An exciting page turner filled with sketchy characters, hidden motivations, and a therapist who will go to any lengths to help her patients. I couldn’t put The Golden Couple down!
The Bishops have a secret. In a moment of weakness, Marissa has a one-night affair with a mysterious someone and she has decided it’s time to come clean. She enlists the help of Avery, a therapist who has recently lost her license because of her unorthodox methods of helping her clients. As she works to restore the trust between the Bishops, it becomes glaringly obvious that they are hiding more than they are telling her and everyone in their circle of acquaintances is acting shading as hell.
The story is told in alternating perspectives – Avery and Marissa. Though they are two different characters, it wasn’t always easy to distinguish between the two. They read very similarly and there were a couple occasions I had to flip back to see whose chapter I was reading. The pacing was grerat though! I had a hard time setting the book down because there was so much going on and each chapter left me desperate to know what was going to happen next.
I also have to give props to the side characters. Skip, Natalie, and Polly were so interesting and it was obvious they were all hiding a little something, I just couldn’t figure out how their quirks and secrets fit into the picture overall.
If you’re looking for an intense, twisty story, I would definitely recommend The Golden Couple.
About the Book
Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all―until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy. She wants to repair things for the sake of their eight-year-old son and because she loves her husband. Enter Avery Chambers.
Avery is a therapist who lost her professional license. Still, it doesn’t stop her from counseling those in crisis, though they have to adhere to her unorthodox methods. And the Bishops are desperate.
When they glide through Avery’s door and Marissa reveals her infidelity, all three are set on a collision course. Because the biggest secrets in the room are still hidden, and it’s no longer simply a marriage that’s in danger.
About the Authors
GREER HENDRICKS is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Wife Between Us, An Anonymous Girl, You Are Not Alone and The Golden Couple (3.8.22). The Wife Between Us has been optioned for film by Amblin Entertainment, with Greer and her co-author, Sarah Pekkanen, hired to write the screenplay. An Anonymous Girl and You Are Not Alone have been optioned for television, with Greer and Sarah tapped to executive produce. Prior to becoming a novelist, Greer served as Vice President and Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Allure, Publishers Weekly and other publications. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.
Sarah and her former editor Greer (by now her sister from another mister) co-author a psychological thriller, The Wife Between Us, which is published by St. Martin’s Press. It spends three months on the New York Times bestsellers list and is optioned by Amblin Entertainment, with Sarah and Greer hired to write the screenplay. Sarah and Greer write three more creepy thrillers, An Anonymous Girl, You Are Not Alone, and The Golden Couple. All have been optioned for film or television.
