Casual Cruelties, Alison Irving
Casual Cruelties, Alison Irving
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Casual Cruelties

Author: Alison Irving

Narrator: Anna Healy

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2024

Synopsis

Fifty-three, long married, and in the throes of menopause, Laura is dismayed. She’s always tolerated her journalist husband’s belittling insults and manipulation—but at least she got some peace when he was busy at his job. Now he’s working from home, and her life is becoming a nightmare. Laura’s blessed escape comes in the form of book-club meetings where her female friends commiserate and joke about raging hormones and rogue chin hairs. She also runs into an ex-boyfriend, and their renewed friendship awakens the spirit and self-confidence she thought was long gone. But when Laura learns some startling things about her spouse, she begins to think she needs a different kind of life change. But an abuser can be dangerous when deprived of his fun—and just how far is Laura prepared to go to get her life back?

About Alison Irving

Alison Irving lives in a village outside Belfast, Northern Ireland. Casual Cruelties is her first novel.

About Anna Healy

Anna Healy is an experienced audiobook narrator who trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. As a voice artist, she also records radio dramas, documentaries, commercials, narrative, corporate, and e-learning.

Reviews

Goodreads review by April on November 27, 2023

This amazing book introduces us the Laura and her journey to realising exactly what her husband is... a terrible, terrible person. Laura is a gorgeous character. Even with her self-doubt and insecurities, she is a loveable and relatable character. You're rooting for her from the moment you start read......more

Goodreads review by Bookish on December 04, 2023

My honest thoughts.. Well I can not believe that this little gem is Alisons first novel! They way its written feels like this is not Alisons first rodeo (novel). I absolutely the dark, uncomfortable and extremely gripping storyline! I don't wanna give too much away as I feel this is a must read!! Chara......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne Ford on March 28, 2024

Behind closed doors. Very good read. I see myself, wishing it was me meeting my first love from many moon's ago. I would have left her husband long before he got so controlling. The way he treated her....his sly, Mr. Big manner and His too posh family looking down on others.......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on November 26, 2023

That was amazing! You know when you are loving a book so much that you can't put it down because you need to know how it ends, but simultaneously don't want it to end because you won't be able to read it any more? It's that. I actually went and made a coffee just before the last 2 chapters so that I......more

Goodreads review by Paula on November 06, 2023

This is a vivid story about coercive control. The sort of control that is subtle and insidious and has the victim questioning whether it is happening at all. Alison Irving has skilfully immersed those feelings within the wording of her story. When I started reading Casual Cruelties, I was taken into......more

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