The Couple Next Door By Shari Lapena “The wife is always the last to know right?” ? Lapena “Such kindness and such thoughtless cruelty.” “But it’s not enough be handsome—one should preferably have charisma or at least warmth.” “She knows how judgemental mothers are good it feels sit in judgment of someone else.” “Everyone faking it all them pretending something they’re not. whole world built on lies deceit.” “I was crying when I fed her because sad about being fat unattractive Cynthia—who supposed a friend—had been flirting with my husband evening.” “Who goes dinner party next door leaves baby alone house? What kind mother does thing? She familiar agony set in—she mother.” climbed on they roared away manicured gravel spitting up their wake. That moment she’d decided she love.”