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Her

A fabulously creepy thriller

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Her

By: Harriet Lane
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
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About this listen

 Two women; two different worlds.
Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold.
Nina is sophisticated and independent - entirely in control.

When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn't the first time the women's paths have crossed. Nina remembers Emma and she remembers what Emma did.

But what exactly does Nina want from her
And how far will she go in pursuit of it

Read by Julie Maisey

(p) 2014 Orion Publishing Group©2014 Harriet Lane Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Critic reviews

Lane ratchets up the apprehension with a maestro's skill we first saw in her debut, Alys Always.. Read it: everyone else will be. (Sophia Martell)
a terrific, subtle thriller with delicious echoes of Patricia Highsmith and F Scott Fitzgerald
The exquisitely sinister psychological thriller that is going to take us all by storm this summer, Harriet Lane's Her, has a Notes on a Scandal-type relationship between an exhausted young mother and her rich sophisticated neighbour. (Amanda Craig)
Harriet Lane's Alys Always was one of the most memorable fictional debuts of recent years, a seemingly simple story that discovered subtle ways to unsettle, and which found elegant, disturbing insights into familiar English obsessions with class and status. Lane's new book, Her, due in June, promises to be this year's unmissable summer novel. Among Lane's antecedents is the pin-sharp prose of Patricia Highsmith (Tim Adams)
Deliciously nasty, Her belongs to an emerging "women beware women" sub-genre indebted to Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal. Yet it is distinctive in its domesticity and its missing formulaic elements: a violence-free psychological thriller in which the victim doesn't even know there is a threat (John Dugdale)
tautly written psychological thriller... there is forensic social observation here. Her London is recognisably real. Both Emma and Nina feel like women you might pass on a leafy Islington street. She has a sharp eye for telling detail... Then the endgame, when it comes, is shattering.
Icicle-sharp... This is psychological bait-and-switchery to put on the shelf alongside Patricia Highsmith and Georges Simenon (Jan Stuart)
Lane's writing shines a spotlight on life's domestic flotsam. Lego under the fridge, damp laundry, crumbs in the toy box: these details of middle-class parenthood are picked out in Hitchcockian detail, gathering weight, promising imminent horror. Lane's first book, Alys, Always, was one of the most talked-about thrillers of 2012, a psychological drama exploring deceit and manipulation. Her is another study of spiteful female friendship, unwinding slowly and subtly over a year... Lane's writing is always careful and elegant, loaded with significance and often beautiful (Charlotte Runcie)
a new generation of female suspense novelists - writers like Megan Abbott, Tana French, Harriet Lane and Gillian Flynn... are redefining contemporary crime fiction with character driven-narratives that defy genre conventions.
As seductive as it is chilling, Her is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller, the devil of which is in the detail (Lucy Scholes)
Brilliant. (Dennis Drabelle)
The end.. is perfectly executed, leaving you at the most excruciating moment possible - when a horrible thing is about to happen and there is nothing you, or any of the characters, can do to stop it
a terrific, subtle thriller
All stars
Most relevant

Where does Her rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Not the greatest but I liked the perfect depiction of couples who have children . I will leave it there !

Who was your favorite character and why?

Nina because she wasn't Emma

Have you listened to any of Julie Maisey’s other performances? How does this one compare?

No

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The final scene running to the pool

It's good to work it out for yourself sometimes

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It was definitely not a waste of time, the story kept me entertained while doing chores.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

I must say I didn't like the ending, I thought it was a too easy a way to end a story like this.

What does Julie Maisey bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Hard to say, not having read the print version. But she does a very good job.

Did Her inspire you to do anything?

No.

Any additional comments?

The story feels like it was written for women who enjoy thrillers but don't like gore or violence.

A story of obsession

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The writing style is beautiful but the story was tedious and the ending very abrupt and disappointing. Good observations about motherhood.

Never really got anywhere

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Would you be willing to try another book from Harriet Lane? Why or why not?

.I may try another book by this author because I enjoyed her writing style very much, however, the story disappointed in in its predictability, particularly towards the end.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did listen to it in one go, more for the reason that I was decorating a room at the time, rather than being so enthralled I couldn't stop..

Any additional comments?

The narrator delivered the characters perfectly, but so much of the narrative - delivered alternately, chapter by chapter, in the voice of one or other of the two main protagonists, was too repetitive, most especially when it came at the beginning of the final chapter when I actually had to check that the download had worked properly. I did feel sorry for Julie Maisey in that the story only enabled to change her emotive style at the very last minute.

Somewhat disappointing

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On the whole I enjoyed this subtle grudge story. It held my attention and I was not able to guess how Emma had managed to do something that was bad but also completely forgettable. The fact that the story replayed the same scenes through two character's eyes was a little tedious especially at the end when the tension should have been mounting. I also thought the plot relied a little too much on Emma and her husband being rather dim and gullible. The ending was good but I wished for more.

Tops marks for the narration but a little less for the story overall.

Enjoyable but stretched the bounds of credibility

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