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Haven't They Grown

By: Sophie Hannah
Narrated by: Laura Kirman
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The new stand-alone from 'one of the great unmissables of the genre - intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully gothic imagination' (The Times) - with a disturbingly impossible situation.

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home.

Just because she knows that her former best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn't mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn't seen Flora Braid for 12 years.

But she can't resist. She parks outside Flora's house and watches from across the road as Flora and her children, Thomas and Emily, step out of the car. Except....

There's something terribly wrong.

Flora looks the same, only older - just as Beth would have expected. It's the children that are the problem. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are still five and three. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt - Beth hears Flora call them by their names - but they haven't changed at all. They are no taller, no older.

Why haven't they grown?

©2020 Sophie Hannah (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction Suspense Exciting Scary Crime

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it was ok. a little too far fetched, but enjoyed listening to it on a long car journey.

too far fetched!

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Gripping, well plotted, excellent narration...yes to all of those. But what I found far more unusual is the very realistic family life of Beth, the central character. Instead of the usual stock husband who storms out over his wife’s investigations, here we have a funny, loving couple where they bicker and still support each other. Same goes for the children. The ‘baddie’ was perhaps a bit too much of a bad thing at the very end, but my guesses had been even more lurid so I can’t complain. Going to reread the whole Hanna oeuvre now!

Great depiction of relationships

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Worth getting to the end but felt like it could have been half the length.

Good ending but too long

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Great story, great narrator loved it twists and turns all the way couldn't stop listening

Loved the book

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I'd been looking at this book on the Kindle store for ages thinking how much I'd like to read it but knowing I unfortunately lack time for reading at the moment, so when it came up in the Audible 2 for 1 offer, I knew I had to get it and I dont regret it at all.
It sucks you in straight away, leaving you with a need to know more. How can it possibly be that these children haven't grown? How could they be the same children?
The best part is I didnt find it predictable. I was amazed when I got, what I believed to be, the answer to all the questions the book gives you and still had over an hour left!
I'll definitely be looking at other books by this author.

As this is an Audible review, I feel I should mention the narrator was also very good!

Brilliant

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