A Nearly Normal Family
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A Nearly Normal Family
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Narrated by:
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Emily Watson
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Georgia Maguire
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Richard Armitage
About this listen
Read by Emily Watson (Small Things Like These), Richard Armitage (The Hobbit), and Georgia Maguire.
The worldwide bestseller, over half a million copies sold. A Nearly Normal Family is the stunning psychological thriller from M. T. Edvardsson, which asks what would a parent do if their child was suspected of murder, and just how far they’d go to protect them . . .
'A deceptive and riveting novel' – Karin Slaughter, author of Girl, Forgotten
One night, eighteen-year-old Stella comes home late. The next morning she is accused of murder.
As parents Adam and Ulrika deal with the fallout and try to protect their daughter, they must search out the truth – but how much do they really know about their daughter?
Told from three viewpoints – father, mother and daughter – but who is telling the truth? Perfect for fans of A. J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window or J. P. Delaney’s The Girl Before.
'An absolutely fantastic read' – Jo Spain, author of Don't Look Back
'An utterly compelling premise . . . a layered, intelligent novel' – Fiona Cummins, author of Into the Dark
'A canny, intensely suspenseful legal thriller' – Scott Turow, author of Suspect
'I couldn't go to bed until I finished it. Effortlessly brilliant' – Sandie Jones, author of The Other Woman
'I couldn't put it down' – Michelle Frances, author of The Girlfriend
'An unsettling page turner. Highly Recommended' – Adam Hamdy, author of White Fire
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Really good story and performance
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great story
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The story is much less gripping than it could potentially have been because it is so spun out. Indeed, this book would have benefited from some stringent editing and a cut of about 40% would have been no great loss. Some concepts, such as family loyalties or the endurance of love are interestingly explored but in such a repetitive way as to lower their impact. How many times do we need to be told that a parent will break all the rules for the sake of a child, or that some people are better liars than others, for example? Not on every page, page after page, surely. Some quite challenging moral dilemmas are rendered almost trite by being splashed about like this.
It may sound like nitpicking to criticise the language, but I found the American English read by British narrators really jarring. No doubt it makes commercial sense for the Swedish publisher to commission an American translation in order to reach a wider market, but in that case they should have put American actors on the job. Americanisms read in a British voice simply sound laughable! I suspect it might be a rather lazily done translation anyway: I can’t believe the original Swedish can have had so much overuse of the same words, again and again, in the same paragraph or even sentences. This too contributes to the rather heavy, repetitive tone of the book.
The characters are nicely drawn, and a slick job is done on making some clearly flawed characters really likeable.
All three narrators are superb - just such a pity their voices don’t work with the text.
A bit disappointing
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Wow
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Pageturner!
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