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The Happy Couple

By: Samantha Hayes
Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
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Summary

Me and Will. Will and Me. A perfect match. He said he would always be there for me, but it’s been a year since he drained his coffee, walked out the front door and vanished. 

Did he leave me? Or did something terrible happen? I’m scared someone finally found out about what happened on the drive home that night...

I lie awake at night trawling the internet for rental properties, desperate for an escape. Until I see my husband’s gorgeous face smiling back at me from a photograph on the fireplace in someone else’s home, and something inside of me snaps. 

At the house, I find no trace of him and the woman who lives there has no idea who I am. But I’m certain she’s hiding something behind the locked door upstairs. I know that if I want answers, I have to stay. 

You might think that what’s inside that room is the answer to all my questions and the end of all my pain. But it’s only the beginning… 

Nail-biting and completely gripping, The Happy Couple will make you question how well you really know the ones you love. Perfect listening for anyone who adored The Wife Between Us, The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl.  

©2020 Samantha Hayes (P)2020 Bookouture

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okay storyline, weak at times.

I stuck with the book and it was ok , but the constant blasphemy was very offensive, don't think the writer recognizes that .

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Kept me involved for days in lockdown

The Happy Couple is most pleasantly narrated by Ellie Heydon. She has a sweet, calm and attractive voice, but sadly isn't right when speaking as in a male character, as Simon or Will. She makes her voice hoarse and rough for them but it doesn't work. I wish the production team could insert a man's voice for those occasions. Simon is a smashing chap, strong and sensible, with no side, but he sounds like a twit.

The plot is full of twists and turns, sometimes I really wanted to shout at Jo, I wished she would wake up and stop being so silly and self centred. Slow, too, at times to think others, often strangely speaking her last thoughts out loud, definitely selfish and full of 'I want'. There are two sides to every story and we got them sorted by the end. I enjoyed it a lot, I am only nit picking about the voices really. Worth a listen!

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Trys too hard to twist and turn

Crap male voice.
Book starts well but then escalates into ridiculousness. U wont guess the ending cos its crap.

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Great; already downloaded another by the author

This listen was so well-written that I immediately downloaded another book by Samantha Hayes.

It combined the two elements I enjoy most in crime fiction - the early part laid down all the clues we needed to solve the mystery, and the final part was in the best tradition of domestic noir, with twists and surprises and an element of fear.

It's a four star for me rather than a five-star only because I personally didn't like the main character and narrator, Jo. She's just so tedious and whiny, and originally determined to make out that everything in her relationship was wonderful when, quite clearly, it was anything but.

However, you may not find her so irritating - some of my dislike, I'm sure, comes from my inbuilt class prejudice - she and her friends are a bit too middle class and entitled for my tastes, but I suspect that they wouldn't put off some others.

In any case, we don't have to like characters to love a book, and The Happy Couple is a great example of this. Samantha Hayes kept me reading, through Jo's whines about being abandoned by her husband, the bizarre decision she makes not to call her police liaison officer when she notices her husband's photos on a fireplace in a picture of a house available for housesitting, and through her weird choice not to even tell the friendly local police officer when she discovers the homeowner's obvious obsession with her missing husband.

I just kept on wondering, "What's happened in the car? Why's she so afraid to take it to the garage for a service? What or whom has she or her husband run over?" and those questions drove me forward through the narrative, guessing some of the answers correctly and some incorrectly. And the denouement was simply edge-of-the-seat stuff.

Looking forward to the next one, which, as I say, I've already downloaded, and happy to have discovered such a good new-to-me crime author.

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Ridiculous

A completely ridiculous plot. Predictable characters, some awful dialogue and just incredibly boring. The main character in particular drones on and and has no personality. Disappointed.

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Collapses at the end

This book will trick you into thinking it has a good storyline, and then dissepoint profoundly in the end. Dont bother

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Not great but ok.

The book was predictable. The story was far fetched, without giving it away there’s no way she’d stumble on that house.

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wow wow wow 👌 Not what I'd envisaged

fanbloomintastic... okay, so it's a bit far-fetched, but hey, it still captured my imagination. I really enjoyed it. It was a completely different ending to what I was expecting, and it worked well. Definitely a 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!

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Disappointed - totally far fetched and annoying

This had potential at the start but then it became so out there and far fetched that I was just annoyed listening. I was screaming at the main character as she was just so stupid and I can’t imagine anyone doing what she did and her friend too. No one is so dumb.

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easy listening. a decent storyline.

Pleasant easy listening. Especially for a bedtime story. Read really well. With a decent storyline. And ends with quite a twist.

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