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The Friend

By: Teresa Driscoll
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
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The chilling new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of I Am Watching You.

On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben.

She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma’s a kindred spirit—someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumours. But Sophie can’t shake the feeling that she’s made an unforgivable mistake and now her whole family is in danger.

Because how well does she know Emma, really? Should she have trusted her at all?

Time is running out. Powerless to help her child, still hours from home, Sophie is about to discover the truth. And her life will never be the same.

©2018 Teresa Driscoll (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Private Investigators Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Detective Crime Exciting

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I didn’t like this as much as other books by this author. The end is good and everything ties up well. The narrator is ok apart from these bizarre Yorkshire accents (think that’s what she aimed for) that characters (in the south of England) suddenly have. If you’ve met Melanie Sanders and Matthew Hill in previous audio books, they don’t have these accents then! It didn’t work, in fact I’m not sure if that’s what put me off the story as technically it was quite good!

Ok - hard to get into

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This is an excellent book of that there is no doubt in my mind. The most refreshing thing about this book is the fact that it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you can write a book with barely any ‘saids’ in it which proves how much drivel other authors write or at least how lazy they are. That’s a personal opinion but now for the book itself. The harassers are well drawn and the plot while a bit predictable at times is nevertheless well set out and very enjoyable to listen to. The time of writing is five past two in the morning which says it all. The narration though leaves a bit to be desired. For instance I have never heard the people of Devon sounding as if they come from Blackburn or Leeds so that’s wrong. I say if you can’t do an accent don’t fake it and this narrator fakes it and it’s so wrong. That apart the reading is pretty good. it’s certainly worth a credit in my opinion.

What life will make you do

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Contrary to other reviews I found the whole story riveting full of twists and had no problem with narration

Really enjoyed it!

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Unfortunately I just couldn’t listen to this book. The narration is the worst I have ever experienced. Monotonous and spoken far too quickly. Listened to only about 15 minutes but I couldn’t bear any more. So difficult to understand and the more you notice the dreadful narration the more it bothers you. Such a shame as I thought the story was promising, and I have enjoyed other books by this author. Might buy the hard copy instead.

Worst narration ever

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The story was excellent although at times the main character Sophie was rather annoying
The back and forth between past and present made it very fast paced and exciting
I liked the narrator apart from when she was doing different regional accents!
I would try other titles from this author reminded me of Lisa Jewell's style

great story

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