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Our Little Lies
- Narrated by: Katie Villa
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a brilliant twist
Marianne has a life others dream of. A beautiful townhouse on the best street in the neighbourhood. Three bright children who are her pride and joy.
Sometimes her past still hurts: losing her mother early, growing up in foster care. But her husband, Simon, is always there. A successful surgeon, he’s the envy of every woman they’ve ever met. Flowers, gifts, trips to France: nothing is too good for his family.
Then Simon says another woman’s name. The way he lingers on it, Caroline, gives Marianne a shudder of suspicion, but she knows it’s nothing - she can’t entertain this flash of paranoia.
In the old days, she’d have distracted herself by excelling at work, but Marianne left her glamorous career when she married. She’d speak to a friend, but she’s too busy with her children and besides, Simon doesn’t approve of the few she has left.
It’s almost by accident that Marianne starts to learn more about Caroline. But once started, she can’t stop, because what she finds makes her wonder: is the question she should be asking not "should I be jealous" but..."should I be scared?"
Fans of The Girl on the Train and I Let You Go who are looking for a dark, gripping psychological thriller with a final twist to put their jaw on the floor will love Our Little Lies.
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- Dayglo
- 13-12-18
Thoroughly Frustrating and Tedious Audio Book
I honestly struggled to get through this audio book. Nothing happens for the first 20 chapters. I'm not exaggerating. Nothing happens. The narrator/main character repeats endlessly the same thing over and over about her family being important to her. It was impossible to care. There was no character or plot progression for 3/4 of this book. I am utterly astounded that this novel got past the editing process.
Really wish I hadn't wasted my money.
The reader was good but her impersonation of the husband was so terrible it was distracting.
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- ziiigggg
- 02-03-19
Great narrator, poor story
This story is mainly a first person monologue of a wife who is emotionally abused and cheated on by a nasty husband. There are nice twists and turns, and great dialogue, but the whole book has extremely annoying long passages of repetition and totally unnecessary over explaining. So we are told what a character is feeling (breaking rule show dont tell) then the character has the scene, then we are subjected to ten minutes of backstory explaining the feeling or possible alternatives to it, sometimes this explaining contradicts and lessens the information given in the scene. This shows a total lack of editing and led me to think maybe the book has been self published, and the author has just published her own notes, as well as the story. If not, shame on the publisher for truly dreadful editing.
The project is rescued by a valiant effort from the narrator, without her thus book would have been appalling. Thanks to her and only her, I kept listening.
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- Felicity
- 16-01-19
Really didn’t like it!
Unfortunately I found this to be one of the most disappointing audible purchases I have ever made. The whole thing was so irritating, particularly the characters who were so bland and basic. I spent most of the time wanting to scream at the main protagonist.
The most entertaining part was the last hour, which was not worth the many hours it took to ‘build up’. Every single ‘twist’ was so obvious and just not worth a listen. I really don’t see what others have seen in this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-10-18
Best listen ever
This was brilliant from start to finish, I listened to this in two days and didn't want it to end.
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- Jackie Ryan
- 20-10-18
whiny
This was a boringly painful book to listen to. just flicked to the last chapter to see how it ended and not bothered to know how the ending came about. the blurb sounded more exciting.
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- Julie
- 03-11-18
NOT MY CUP OF TEA
OMG, was waiting for this woman to get a backbone all the way through this book.
I grew up with no parents its hard but just to have money & a nice home you would put up with this. Narrator ok though. Maybe O am becoming a feminist.
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- lou_g
- 01-11-18
Okay, a bit the same story different book
This was an okay book one I listened to whilst at work, but it just came across like a lot of the thriller books I have read recently was hoping that there would be some thing different.
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- Eve
- 09-11-18
Not a bad listen but heroine starts out annoying!
A pleasant listen with good narration.
If you can get past the frustration of the grating nature of the downtrodden leading lady...you really want to shake her...but I guess it's building the story.
It is a little similar to other books in this vein but if you enjoy an evil husband story you'll like it.
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- Racy Gaze
- 18-01-19
Not bad, psychological thriller
If you’re a fan of psychological thrillers, you will enjoy this. It’s probably more like 3.5 stars but scoring it 3 would be too low. I won’t cover the story as you can read the blurb but I will tell you briefly what I thought of it. Okay, what I liked. the writing was very good and the novel had a good pace. The characters were well written and really made you feel the emotions that mothers go through. The story was good. You aren’t totally sure what’s going on and times and I was keen to get through to the end to find out. The ending was good but this book fell a bit short of the mark for me. It’s not very original, most of the themes and ideas have been down to death recently and it didn’t bring anything new. The first part of the book did drag and take a while to get going but the second half really picked up the pace and was bloody brilliant! Gotta be honest it got quite predictable and we could have done with some more red herrings and the twist ending wasn’t that shocking really. I’ve been a bit critical here... but overall it was a good read.
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- Gwyneth Smith
- 19-11-18
Took a bit of getting into but loved it
The story does eventually getting going and had me finding many a quite corner to snatch an extra half hour here and there.. Loved all of the # references, kept me laughing and laughing.
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