Perfect Wives cover art

Perfect Wives

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

Perfect Wives

By: Emma Hannigan
Narrated by: Grainne Gillis
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £27.99

Buy Now for £27.99

About this listen

Actress Jodi Ludlum returns home to Ireland to raise her young son in the leafy South Dublin village of Bakers Valley - even if coming home means leaving her husband and waking old ghosts.

Meanwhile Francine Hennessy, queen of the coffee mornings, was born and raised in Bakers Valley. She takes pride in juggling her children, her beautiful home and her high-powered career.

But behind closed doors, Francine’s life is crumbling around her. As Jodi struggles to keep her secrets to herself and Francine comes to terms with some life-changing news, the two become unlikely friends.

When they do, they quickly discover that there’s no such thing as the perfect wife or the perfect life.

©2015 Emma Hannigan (P)2015 Oakhill Publishing Fiction Women's Fiction Marriage

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Part of Me and You cover art
Life After You cover art
Cold Feet cover art
Life's What You Make It cover art
Isobel's Wedding cover art
Mothers and Daughters cover art
Two Fridays in April cover art
What Eden Did Next cover art
The School Gates cover art
Yours, Faithfully cover art
The Cornish Village School: Breaking the Rules cover art
The Sandycove Supper Club cover art
How Will I Know? cover art
Too Good to Be True cover art
The Wish cover art
Life Before Us cover art

Critic reviews

"Anybody chasing perfection should read Perfect Wives - if you're not, savour a novel from an author who knows what makes people tick. No wonder she is back where belongs on the bestsellers' list." (Clodagh Finn, Irish Independent)
"A moving tale celebrating the bonds between women, Emma Hannigan beautifully captures the difficult and wondrous thing that is loving and learning to let go...just a little. An excellent read." ( Irish Tatler)
"Warm, wise, uplifting...a wonderful storyteller." (Cathy Kelly)
"Hannigan's novel, much like the vivacious author herself, is brimming with hope, joy and inspiration." ( Sunday Independent)
"Unmissable." ( U magazine)
All stars
Most relevant
Storylines so so, but couldn’t stand the narrator voice when she did the children, so didn’t bother listening to it, as it grated on my nerves.

Dreadful Narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
a movie star moves back to her roots in Ireland.
she has to fit in with all the mums at the school, one of the mothers struggles when her child is diagnosed with A.D.H.D.

brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed the story but the narrators voice was irritating and off putting especially when doing children's voices.

Good story by awful narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.