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The House Guest

By: Charlotte Northedge
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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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.

When Kate moves to London after the disappearance of her sister, she’s in need of a friend. A chance meeting leads Kate to Della, a life coach who runs support groups for young women, dubbed by Kate as ‘the Janes’.

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.
©2021 Charlotte Northedge (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Domestic Thrillers Psychological Suspense
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Critic reviews

"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)

"Delicious, compelling, a debut to watch!" (Fiona Cummins)

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  • 07-20-21

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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.

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