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The House Guest
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
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Summary
The perfect family. The perfect chance. The perfect lie.
A stunning novel about motherhood and betrayal, for listeners who love Sarah Vaughan and Louise Candlish.
Kate trusts Della, and Della trusts Kate. Their downfall is each other.
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Della takes a special interest in Kate, and Kate soon finds herself entangled in Della’s life - her house, her family and her husband. It’s only when she realises that she’s in too deep that Della’s veneer begins to crumble and the warnings from ‘the Janes’ begin to come true.
Why is Della so keen to keep Kate by her side? What does Kate have that Della might want? And what really lies beneath the surface of their friendship?
A twisty psychological thriller for fans of Louise Candlish and Harriet Tyce.
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"This is ace. Very, very acute on class, aspiration, women and status and all those agonising negotiations and anxieties." (Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent)
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WOWWW😱👏🏽 what an AMAZING narrator and loved this book!👏🏽
This narrator was absolutely AMAZING! WOW WOW WOW! She was OUTSTANDING!!!😱👏🏽💯💯she has an amazing talent! I will be getting more books read by her for SURE! She actually made me feel EVERYTHING, i was transported right into this story thanks to kristin😁👏🏽 I Loved this book and im devastated its finished now! I haven’t been able to get into a story for so long now but I LOVED this! So a huge well done to Charlotte too!! Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!💯💯💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 thank you audible for another FABULOUS book!👏🏽👏🏽
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- Cautious buyer
- 17-05-22
Good read
This book took me by surprise. The characters story were easy to follow. A good beach reach, well read by narrator
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- N. James
- 06-11-21
Dull and annoying
This novel started off promising but by the end I felt the main character deserved everything she got! It felt as thought the author did not really know how it was going to end so kept writing without direction.
Annoying characters made even more annoying by narrators terrible accents, I wonder if she went to the same ‘narration’ school as Imogen Church! Why they feel they have to speak in this really deep, weird voice to convey a male character is beyond me and a little bit patronising.
Didn’t get to the end.
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- Sam Wall
- 15-08-21
Poor
Really slow and didn't go anywhere. very disappointing. Would have given up if I was reading this.
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- U Quigley
- 04-08-21
don't bother bi line.makesnit sound good it's not
awful book who is that stupid who knows what going on but still goes along with it. so disappointing. the narrator was good the story awful bad ending I skipped through the last 13 chapters all that describing her feelings all the time all that we will talk about that later deal with that later say that later except Kate never did EVER. RUBBISH DONT BOTHER. AS FOR THE STARS I WOULD ONLY GIVE THE STORY 1 STAR BUT IT PUT 2 AND U CANNOT UNDO THAT , IN FACT NO STARS FOR THE STORY WAS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. now its put 3 stars don't be fooled. now 5 please can some.one.fix it so u can remove the stars if it puts more that u don't agree with.
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- Holly
- 30-07-21
Starts really well but becomes tedious
Typical of its type, but I really enjoyed the first part of this book, then I started to get an inkling of what the twist might be. Annoyingly I was right, and it becomes quite tedious. Mostly enjoyed the narration apart from the narrator's voice for Mark which made me cringe.
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- helen carwright
- 19-07-21
loved it
Really good listen, fantastic story and the narration was excellent. Enjoyed this story from beginning to end
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- Beeny Wildblood
- 05-07-21
Compelling from the first paragraph
My only complaint is I didn't get a lot done apart from dog walking and ironing as I kept finding excuses to listen to this novel. It was gripping from the start and at every turn wasn't what I was expecting. A really compelling story from beginning to end. Absolutely loved it and can't wait for Charlotte Northedge's next novel.
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- Daisokie
- 07-06-21
Not great
Didn’t like the narration. Could do decent different voices, but so over dramatic! One character who is meant to be a hippyish laid back nomad type sounded like a girl guide leader or public school head girl - just cringy. One of those I had to keep winding back because of major zone-out.
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- Pam
- 04-06-21
Tedious
This starts well.
It then becomes unbelievable and is about 3 hrs too long.
Could have been good had it been differently executed.
Narration was less than average.
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- JJ
- 20-07-21
Dreary
This was a hard book to get through and a lot of suspended disbelief was required to do so. The chief protagonist’s actions were largely implausible and it was difficult to sympathise with her since she whined almost constantly without making any effort to change her circumstances. Stuck in France for several months with only a non English speaking person visiting, does she decide to learn French? No! She just complains that she is unable to speak to anyone. The narrator spoke exceptionally slowly and made a few errors, calling people by the wrong name etc, but really that was the least of this books problems.
I increased the playback speed just to get through it.