The Arsenic Eater's Wife

I love books that are based on true events! This one already hooked me just with that!

Constance is on trial for murdering her husband. A man who routinely swallows arsenic but he has now died from it and all signs point to Constance.

She loses her home, custody of her kids and now her liberty. She spends her time stewing in jai trying to work out who put here there.

I did not like Constance. She is the worst kind of morally grey character and you spend your time being able to see how she could have done it and not just because everyone in her home was pointing their fingers.

The pace was a bit of a mess, one minute it was racing then it literally felt like the book wasn't moving forward. It was well written and had some beautiful prose flowing through it and I massively enjoyed the audio.

If you like historical fictions based on real events... try this one

4 stars