His Perfect Wife

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His Perfect Wife

By: Natasha Bell

Narrated by: Katharine McEwan

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of His Perfect Wife by Natasha Bell, read by Katharine McEwan.

She was his perfect wife, until she went missing.

Alexandra Southwood has vanished. Her husband, Marc, is beside himself. It isn't long before the police are searching for a body.

But Alexandra is alive - trapped, far away from her husband and young daughters.

Desperate, Marc will stop at nothing to find the woman he loves. Even if it means discovering that he never really knew her at all.

Because Alexandra is no ordinary missing person - but then neither is she quite a perfect wife....

Previously published as Exhibit Alexandra.

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This is a missing person thriller with a difference. Alexandra is a mother and a lapsed student of modern art having abandoned her MFA degree at School of Art Institute, Chicago to marry Marc in York, England. She is also the narrator of the book so we the listeners know that she is still alive but now held captive in some way. Mainly, it is set at the University of York where Alexandra and Marc, her conventionally academic husband, both work.

As narrator, Alex tells us about how her family and friends are most likely responding to her disappearance, while admitting that since she isn't there, she can't really be sure what is happening.

At times it felt like there was some padding in the story, (about what constitutes Art), but by the end and once I understood what was really going on, I realised that is was a really good book. Hence 5 stars. Well worth persevering with.

There's some great narrative describing Marc's first visit to New York City. I felt that I was there.

Katharine McEwan was a reasonable narrator, but she had Marc's "Dylan Thomas" accent all over the place. Sometimes Irish, sometimes Welsh. It became mostly Yorkshire towards the end.

Note: If you've already bought "Exhibit Alexandra", then be aware that this is the SAME BOOK.