The Better Half

Sarah Harte was a corporate lawyer with one of Ireland's leading firms, A&amp;L Goodbody. She lives in Dublin with her husband Jay Bourke, the high profile restauranteur and hotelier, and their son. The Better Half is her first novel.

Anita is a wife on the edge. 
 
Thanks to her husband Frank's success in business she has lived a lavish lifestyle at the heart of the city's elite. However, now that the economy is in freefall, it seems the days of boozy lunches with 'the girls', glittering charity balls and competitive designer shopping are over. 
 
Still, though the banks are breathing down their necks, and their marriage is far from perfect, Anita had believed she and Frank would pull through. After all, they came from nothing. That was until she heard news that shook both her marriage, and the family she thought happy and secure, to its foundations. 
 
As she faces meltdown, Anita is haunted. Why did she walk away from her one chance to prove herself on her own terms? What happened to the love that was once so overwhelming? And how did she let herself get lost in an empty high-rolling lifestyle? 
 
Anita has to find herself again ... but how do you do that when you're just someone else's better half?

Sarah Harte

Intelligent ... encapsulates some universal truths about families, friendship and what we value

Deceptively sharp and witty ... I won't be the only reader to finish it with a lump in my throat

Irish Mail on Saturday on The Better Half

Brilliant ... great insight and poignancy

'An extremely talented, elegant writer. Wise and intuitive and gets right to the heart of people's lives with great honesty and maturity' Marian Keyes 
 
As students, Marianne Dillon and Clare McMahon become instant and unlikely friends. Marianne is bold and irreverent; Clare shy and modest, but somehow their personalities just click. 
 
Through twenty-five years of love and loss, successes and disappointments, marriage and motherhood, Marianne and Clare are there for each other. The secret of their friendship, they believe, is that they are complete opposites. 
 
But when a life-altering crisis hits their relationship - a crisis that involves their husbands, children and indeed the lives they have created - the crack that was there all along tears them apart. 
 
Each must face disaster without the support of the best friend she would always turn to. Is it possible that a relationship that was so central to their lives was built on sand? And can they rescue something from the wreckage?

Sarah Harte

Praise for Thick and Thin

Intelligent ... encapsulates some universal truths about families, friendship and what we value

Deceptively sharp and witty ... I won't be the only reader to finish it with a lump in my throat

A real gem and brilliantly gripping

Intelligent ... encapsulates some universal truths about families, friendship and what we value

Deceptively sharp and witty ... I won't be the only reader to finish it with a lump in my throat

A real gem and brilliantly gripping

Intelligent ... encapsulates some universal truths about families, friendship and what we value

Deceptively sharp and witty ... I won't be the only reader to finish it with a lump in my throat

A real gem and brilliantly gripping

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