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Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.
Kirstie Rawlings is jolted awake by a child crying. Racing upstairs to check on her newborn, she is plunged into every parents’ worst nightmare. She hears an unknown voice in the baby monitor saying, "Let’s take the child - and go." Is someone trying to steal her little girl?
Twenty-five-year-old scrappy Aubrey is fed up with Tom, a married neurologist with two children. When he's not shoving their relationship on the back burner, he's canceling their dates. With a frightening health diagnosis looming over her shoulder, Aubrey concocts a desperate plan to have Tom forever. Kill the wife. Take her place. Befriending Tom's successful, kind wife comes easily to Aubrey. However, the closer they become, the more doubts Aubrey has about following through. Then, a shocking discovery changes everything....
Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her as she sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again.
Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped in dirty rags on a doorstep. An anonymous phone call urges the police to run a DNA test on the baby. But nobody is prepared for the results. The newborn belongs to Deborah. She’s still alive.
Five years ago, 19-year-old Simon Hawkeswell hanged himself in his family home in Warwickshire, England. The reasons behind his choice remain a devastating mystery, and what's worse, not long after his death a wave of "sympathetic" suicides among local teens rocked the community. But that was then. A short-lived, sinister trend that's faded into oblivion. Or so everyone thought.
From the outside, Essie’s life looks idyllic: a loving husband, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, and a nearby mother who dotes on her grandchildren. But few of Essie’s friends know her secret shame: that in a moment of maternal despair, she once walked away from her newborn, asleep in her carriage in a park. Disaster was avoided, and Essie got better, but she still fears what lurks inside her, even as her daughter gets older and she has a second baby.
Then - In charge of her little sister at the beach, Claire allowed Eleanor to walk to the shop alone to buy an ice cream. Placing a coin into her hand, Claire told her to be quick, knowing how much she wanted the freedom. Eleanor never came back. Now - The time has finally come to sell the family farm and Claire is organizing a reunion of her dearest friends, the same friends who were present the day her sister went missing. When another girl disappears, long-buried secrets begin to surface.
Kirstie Rawlings is jolted awake by a child crying. Racing upstairs to check on her newborn, she is plunged into every parents’ worst nightmare. She hears an unknown voice in the baby monitor saying, "Let’s take the child - and go." Is someone trying to steal her little girl?
Twenty-five-year-old scrappy Aubrey is fed up with Tom, a married neurologist with two children. When he's not shoving their relationship on the back burner, he's canceling their dates. With a frightening health diagnosis looming over her shoulder, Aubrey concocts a desperate plan to have Tom forever. Kill the wife. Take her place. Befriending Tom's successful, kind wife comes easily to Aubrey. However, the closer they become, the more doubts Aubrey has about following through. Then, a shocking discovery changes everything....
Deborah Jenkins pulls her coat around her as she sets out on her short walk home in the pouring rain. But she never makes it home that night. And she is never seen again.
Four years later, an abandoned baby girl is found wrapped in dirty rags on a doorstep. An anonymous phone call urges the police to run a DNA test on the baby. But nobody is prepared for the results. The newborn belongs to Deborah. She’s still alive.
Five years ago, 19-year-old Simon Hawkeswell hanged himself in his family home in Warwickshire, England. The reasons behind his choice remain a devastating mystery, and what's worse, not long after his death a wave of "sympathetic" suicides among local teens rocked the community. But that was then. A short-lived, sinister trend that's faded into oblivion. Or so everyone thought.
From the outside, Essie’s life looks idyllic: a loving husband, a beautiful house in a good neighborhood, and a nearby mother who dotes on her grandchildren. But few of Essie’s friends know her secret shame: that in a moment of maternal despair, she once walked away from her newborn, asleep in her carriage in a park. Disaster was avoided, and Essie got better, but she still fears what lurks inside her, even as her daughter gets older and she has a second baby.
You lost your daughter. You will never forgive yourself. And now someone is determined to make you pay.... Seventeen years ago, something happened to Jess' daughter, Beth. The memory of it still makes her blood run cold. Jess has tried everything to make peace with that day, and the part she played in what happened. It was only a brief moment of desire...but she'll pay for it with a lifetime of guilt.
Rose Denton wakes up in her car. She has no memory of how she got there. But she knows something bad happened.... There’s blood on the windscreen and bonnet - but it’s not hers, and there’s no sign of anything or anyone she might have hit. The last thing she remembers is being in a hotel on a business trip, but now she’s miles away. Back home, her daughter’s boyfriend is missing. The last thing he did was argue with Rose over money. He left no note, no text, no clue as to his whereabouts. The police have questions - and so does Rose.
Fifteen-year-old Rosie lies in hospital fighting for her life. She’s trying to tell her mother what happened to her, but she can’t speak the words out loud. Toni is a doting and over-protective mother, terrified for her daughter’s life. Having lost her husband in a tragic accident, Toni has dedicated her life to keeping Rosie safe from harm. She needs to know what secrets Rosie has been keeping and how she ended up in a hospital bed - but Toni has a secret of her own....
When a child’s scream pierces the night, Mira does what any good neighbor would do: She calls the police. She wants to make sure that Rosie, the little girl next door, is safe. Opening her front door to the police the next morning, Gemma's picture-perfect family is forced under scrutiny of social services. As her flawless life begins to crumble around her, Gemma must fight to defend the family she loves and protect her daughter from the terrible secret she's been keeping. When Rosie disappears without a trace, Gemma thinks she only has herself to blame....
Mark and Melissa Cain are thrilled to have found Jade, a babysitter who is brilliant with their young children. Having seen her own house burn to the ground, Jade needs them as much as they need her. Moving Jade into the family home can only be a good thing, can’t it? As Mark works long hours as a police officer and Melissa struggles with running a business, the family become ever more reliant on their babysitter, who is only too happy to help. And as Melissa begins to slip into depression, it’s Jade who is left picking up the pieces. But Mark soon notices things aren’t quite as they seem. Things at home feel wrong, and as Mark begins to investigate their seemingly perfect sitter, what he discovers shocks him to his core. He’s met Jade before. And now he suspects he might know what she wants.
Emma Turner had the perfect life, until the day she discovered her husband was keeping secrets - secrets that could mean they lose their business, their home - everything. Now someone is stalking Emma’s family, watching them from their garden and stealing into their house while they sleep. Emma’s husband is angry. Her son is afraid. Then Emma wakes up in a psychiatric ward with no memories of the past 24 hours and no idea why she’s there. And her husband and son refuse to visit her. All she can remember is the last thing she saw before she blacked out: a pair of cold, dark eyes.
Three troubled women. One deadly secret. Lissy and her daughter, Rosie, live a quiet life in Yorkshire. However, when events at Rosie’s school come to light, their peaceful existence is shattered. Meanwhile, middle-aged women Erica and Beverley appear to have perfect lives, but behind closed doors, things are not as they seem. All three women are tied together by a dark past that goes back to their school days. A child was murdered, and one of the women is to blame. But is the person responsible for the child’s death the same person who was blamed for it all those years ago?
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.
The best-selling author of Close to Me returns with another stunning psychological drama. Full of secrets, obsession and betrayal, Lying to You will hold you in its grip till the final, breathtaking twist. Perfect for fans for He Said/She Said, Close to Home and The Husband's Secret. The lies we tell ourselves are the worst kind, for we have all the time in the world to convince ourselves they are true....
Laura Cavendish can't wait to meet the woman who's won her son's affection. Despite a successful career in television and a long, prosperous marriage, Laura's world revolves around kind, talented Daniel. She pictures his new girlfriend, Cherry, becoming a close friend and confidante ...one day, even a daughter-in-law. But although Cherry is beautiful and amiable, Laura can't warm to her. There's something about the possessive way she touches Daniel, the little lies Laura detects. Cherry seems to resent Laura, driving a wedge between mother and son - until one day Daniel is injured.
On a wet road in the black of night, Karl Seabury is driving home to his pregnant wife. Suddenly, caught in his headlights in the middle of the road is a woman shaking with fright. The woman says her name is Liz Smith, that her home was attacked, and that she was the only one to escape. In a split-second decision, Karl decides to help her to safety. But Liz is hiding a dark secret, and now, his good deed has put his family in terrible danger....
From behind the wheel of her car, Tess Kincaid glimpses a woman walking down a Madison, Wisconsin, street. They've never met, but Tess sees the same features every time she looks in the mirror. Tess introduces herself and discovers that she and her doppelganger, Mimi, have more than appearance in common. They even share the same birthday. Mimi - confident and outgoing where Tess is understated and shy - is convinced they're twins, separated shortly after birth. When a body is discovered in a local marsh, Tess is entangled in a search for the truth....
You have something that someone else wants. At any cost ...Claudia seems to have the perfect life. She's heavily pregnant with a much wanted baby, she has a loving husband, and a beautiful home. And then Zoe steps into her life. Zoe has come to help Claudia when her baby arrives. But there's something about Zoe that Claudia doesn't like. Or trust. And when she finds Zoe in her bedroom, Claudia's anxiety turns to real fear ...
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Yes, but not the ones about to have a baby. It's for fans of books like Gone Girl.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
I saw it coming early on and unfortunately think it would have been better to read because the voices gave away the twist before you're meant to know what's going on. I think this is the first time ever a thriller twist hasn't worked in audio.
What does Clare Corbett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I love how her voice rose and fell to indicate tension, confusion, etc.
Any additional comments?
It's a great holiday read but if you've read other books in this genre you'll figure out the twist early on. Still, I wanted to see how it played out and that was enjoyable enough.
Rarely does an audio book have me jumping around shouting as I listen to it. This audiobook had me gripped from the start and plot twist was fantastic. The narrator was superb and I never found myself irritated by her voice. Great choice.
I have tried very hard to find another book that comes close and they are all disappointing and lacklustre in comparison. I can't wait for more of her books to be available on here. Please release your other titles on Audible Samantha...I need more!!
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
keeps you guessing at every turn. Very well written with lots of twists. highly recommend
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
A riveting read and well audited too. Without giving away too much, this book really has you captivated. A word of warning though, quite gruesome in parts and it would be unkind and insensitive of me to recommend to someone who maybe sensitively affected or reeling from a recent miscarriage. Having said that though, full credit should still go to Samantha; for an engaging and thrilling fictitious novel from beginning to end. I hope you can enjoy. Thanks.
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Where does Until You're Mine rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the best books I have listened to recently
What did you like best about this story?
I liked the twist at the end
Have you listened to any of Clare Corbett’s other performances? How does this one compare?
No
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I enjoyed the ending
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Would you listen to Until You're Mine again? Why?
No - I never listen to books again as a rule. I enjoyed the plot and the 'twist' at the end, so now I now how it all ended, I would have no desire to re-listen
What was one of the most memorable moments of Until You're Mine?
The final scenes, where the 'twist' was revealed (although there were a few clues building as the booked reached its end). The ending and explanation was somewhat improbable/ unlikely, but enjoyable nonetheless. I don't want to give the plot away, so I won't say any more but it was very enjoyable.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
I can't pick out one scene more than any other. It was very well written and well performed. I liked the way the narration switched from one character to the other and the narrator did a good job of projecting the different personalities of the various characters.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Too tricky to put into a tag-line! But if I were to summarise, it is about what happens when the maternal urge drives a woman to take desperate measures...
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Would you try another book written by Samantha Hayes or narrated by Clare Corbett?
Yes
Would you be willing to try another book from Samantha Hayes? Why or why not?
Yes, definitely. I love psychological thrillers and this was a good one.
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
I thought she was good
Was Until You're Mine worth the listening time?
Yes
Any additional comments?
There were a couple of moments when I switched off but mostly I was drawn into the story.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Is there anything you would change about this book?
This audiobook started off pretty well and for the first half, despite the now rather tired psychological thriller setting, I was gripped. However it became rather tedious, farcical and unbelievable. At times it was well written but in places it was simple, cliche ridden chick lit. Also, I really did not like any of the characters and found it hard to summon up any interest in their lives.
Would you be willing to try another book from Samantha Hayes? Why or why not?
Possibly.
What about Clare Corbett’s performance did you like?
Clare Corbett is one of my favourite narrators and on the whole she narrates this well. However, the voice of Claudia really grated on me and the male voices were not quite convincing.
Do you think Until You're Mine needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Yes there could definitely be a follow up. I think Samantha Hayes has prepared us for this by introducing the detectives Lorraine and Adam and exploring their personal lives.
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Would you consider the audio edition of Until You're Mine to be better than the print version?
Both would be great.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
If I could I would have.
Any additional comments?
This is a book that keeps the reader guessing all the way, changing their minds about the characters and their secrets. It is well written and paced perfectly. Please Audible....can we have some more Samantha Hayes, I know she has written many more but only the one on Audible.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
could not put it down, amazing story with a chilling ending. must read for sure
Absolutely great listen. couldn't put it down. Well written and Clare performed it wonderfully. Bravo
When I initially started listening I was so into this story, it was thrilling and had me at the edge of my seat but unfortunately I found that it drifted off towards the end and started focusing on other characters and story lines that were irrelevant to the core part that made it so interesting. It had the potential to be so much more at the end.
Complex relationships combined with exciting characters keep the reader hooked til they get tipped on their head with a twist that takes a few re-reads to sort out.....thanks Samantha! The narration failed to separate some characters' voices sufficiently, although this may have been a requirement, and the last chapters end up a little anti-climatic as the writer justifies the twist. Still a good read that kept me engrossed.
It took a while before I got used to the narrator-her voice was just too whispery. I found the story a bit disappointing, a very very obvious red herring was apparent by chapter 2 and the character development was sub par
I enjoyed the book and it's storyline did not guess the ending.
I have heard the male narrator several times need some variety there as I kept thinking of him in a previous book I had purchased.
Great story keep you going just the audio was a bit tinny is the only way I can describe it.
It Started off slow....the voices got a little annoying at the start.....but definitely worth the read
Couldn't fault this book. Written really well & loved the suspense. Unexpected twists too. Highly recommend 😊
Where does Until You're Mine rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This was a great listen on my morning commute to work. It kept me in the car a little longer to finish a chapter and see what happens.
What other book might you compare Until You're Mine to, and why?
No comparison yet
Have you listened to any of Clare Corbett’s other performances? How does this one compare?
She is a fantastic narrator. I went searching after this book to find others as i love her voice and how she makes the characters come alive.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I would love the time to listen in one sitting - was very entrancing and you want to read in one sitting.
Any additional comments?
This book keeps you in suspense till the end. Great plot.
Really enjoyed this story with good twists and turns. Got a bit confused near the end but all was revealed and explained.
Narrator excellent.
This was a great listen. It sucks you into the story from the first chapter and you are hooked till the end. Not predictable at all and you will enjoy it immensely. Highly recommend!
1 of 2 people found this review helpful