Book review: The Jeweller's Wife

By Judith Lennox

Book review: The Jeweller's Wife

Here we go again with Judith Lennox.

In today's book review, we will be talking about The Jeweller's Wife.

Henry Winterton is a British Jeweller, travelling in Rabat, and meets Juliet on a night when she tried to sell him her last belonging left by her father: a necklace. He wouldn't take it. He'd rather marry her instead. And so she goes from an orphaned 19 years old girl, to a homemaker in the countryside of England.

She discovers a lot about him. That he's the first born of three children (he has a brother and a sister), that he travels a lot for work, that he likes to host friends and family at his residence, AND that he hates children.

Well, that's a bit tricky isn't it? She gave him a son. They named him Piers and the poor kid never truly heals from his father's emotional distance. Piers has a handful of cousins, but he harbours a lot of rivalry with Aidan over a girl.

Juliet gets used to her life with her husband's absence. She adores Piers, and later on falls pregnant with a bouncing baby girl: Charlotte.

What she likes most about hosting, or should I say "who" she likes most, is Gillis Sinclair, a charismatic politician, tall, dark, and handsome. I always thought that meant "black", in literature. What was my surprise when I found out... nevermind.

Back to the book.

Gillis is the kind of man who could ruin a marriage with a smile: his own and other people's. He is magnetic and knows his way around people... perhaps a little too well.

Meanwhile the Wintertons face some conflicts about who inherits the family's jewellery store, exclusively discussed between Henry and his brother Jonathan. There is a lovechild, or rather love-children, but I can't tell you whose. That would be distasteful now wouldn't it?

Like in many of Judith's book, the children grow up and lead lives of their own.

This wealthy family holds so many secrets. First of all, what was Henry's problem? He literally weaved this life for himself. he could have bought the necklace and ended it there, but no, he just had to marry Juliet to watch her suffer.

And Gillis! I'll call him to the bar eventually. You know what they say about birds of a feather.

All in all, great read 10/10. Judith Lennox owes me absolutely nothing. She's excellent.