The Phone Call
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The Phone Call
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Narrated by:
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Frazer Blaxland
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By:
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A J Campbell
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Shortlisted for the Adult Prize for Fiction at the Selfie Book Awards 2023
A single phone call can destroy your life.
Joey Clarke has been responsible for his family since he was just fifteen. Ten years on, his only pleasure is spending time with bubbly Becca, his best friend… and the secret love of his life. She’s his only escape from a dead-end job, ever-increasing debts and the fear that enforcement agents will knock on the front door any day.
So when a phone call brings Joey the chance to ease his family’s financial burdens, he grabs the opportunity — even though the bags he’s delivering seem suspicious. What he doesn’t know can’t hurt him, right?
But Joey soon finds himself party to a crime that turns Becca’s life upside down, and he panics.
Should he confess to the police? Tell Becca? Or keep quiet and hope for the best? After all, the only woman who knows the truth may never speak again…
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The phone call, hooked right away. ! And had that bereft feeling when a great book ends.
Joey !! Bless him, you get very fond of him. I was like.... oh Joey for goodness sake, what have you done! As always A.J Campbell observations of humans are absolutely fab. Awesome twists and turns in this! Very real and current problems in it too. Absolutely fab ending. Yep wasn’t expecting that. Top work AJ Campbell ! Love true narrators voice too. Always import! Thank you both.
Poor Joey ! Bless him. You will love this lad.
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Sometimes the guilty are innocent
Joey Clarke was just fifteen when his dad died, leaving him to raise his much younger siblings as his mum dealt with the trauma of bereavement and her failing health. Ten years on, Joey’s only pleasure is spending time with his friend Becca, the love of his life. It’s the one escape from his dead-end job, his ever-increasing debts, and the fear that enforcement agents will knock on his door any day.
So when a phone call brings Joey the chance to ease the burdens of his life, he grabs the opportunity, even though he knows things are not entirely as they should be. He justifies it to himself as a way to get back on his feet. But when he finds himself party to a crime involving Becca, he panics.
The narrator was fantastic, and the audio production was really good, so much that when the book ended I just wanted it to continue.
The characters are extremely well rounded and defined and poor Joey, he's just a normal guy that gets dragged into absolute awfulness that my heart went out to him. He is one of the world's good guys but finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then there is his seemingly innocent friend Becca the one he admires and is actually in love with. Joey really had so much to deal with and I felt awful for him during the entire story.
PLOT: This was well thought out and one that kept me wanting to hear more and more because I just had an inkling there would be an end plot twist and A.J.Campbell did not disappoint. I definitely didn't see it coming not in the slightest. I never would have guessed what this author was going to surprise us with. I love a good thriller and The Phone Call is one of my favorites of this year.
Highly recommend this book if you enjoy Lisa Jewell, Freida McFadden or Sarah A. Denzil.
Kerry Kennedy Author
Fantastic thriller with an unsuspecting twist
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You really do feel for Joey, although he does make some dodgy decisions - but what would you do in his situation?
A fast-paced thriller with some good characters, but I did struggle with the narrator - not the worst by any means but not the best either. He seemed to mumble at times, & at others it was like he was reading a list.
It didn’t spoil my enjoyment of a great book but I wish he’d been a bit more engaged.
Would recommend.
Would recommend.
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He wound me up to the point that I nearly gave the book back.
satisfying ending though.
Everything goes wrong
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Good story
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