Imperfect Women, Araminta Hall
Imperfect Women, Araminta Hall
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Imperfect Women
A Novel

Author: Araminta Hall

Narrator: Helen Keeley

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2020


Synopsis

From the author of Our Kind of Cruelty comes an enthralling, irresistible novel of psychological suspense about three women and the destructive power of buried secrets.

When Nancy Hennessy is murdered, she leaves behind two best friends, an adoring husband and daughter, and a secret lover whose identity she took to the grave. Nancy was gorgeous, wealthy, and cherished by those who knew her—from the outside, her life was perfect. But as the investigation into her death flounders and her friends Eleanor and Mary wrestle with their grief, dark details surface that reveal how little they knew their friend, each other, and maybe even themselves.

A gripping, immersive novel about impossible expectations and secrets that fester and become lethal, Imperfect Women unfolds through the perspectives of three fascinating women. Their enduring, complex friendship is the knot the listener must untangle to answer the question Who killed Nancy?

Imperfect Women explores guilt and retribution, love and betrayal, and the compromises we make that alter our lives irrevocably. With the wickedly sharp insights and finely tuned suspense that has drawn comparisons to Patricia Highsmith and Paula Hawkins, Araminta Hall returns with another thought-provoking tour de force.

A Macmillan Audio production from MCD

About Araminta Hall

Araminta Hall has an MA in creative writing and authorship from the University of Sussex, and teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children. She is the author of Our Kind of Cruelty, which was named a best book of 2018 by CrimeReads and Real Simple.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer on August 15, 2020

I couldn’t agree more about the title of the book. The characters are definitely far from the perfect. They’re truly dislikable, insecure and problematic ones! You may not easily connect with any of them. And let’s not forget those inglorious bastards (at some parts they were even worse than Taranti......more

Goodreads review by Bridgett on August 09, 2020

Imperfect women, indeed. And let's not forget their imperfect husbands, who were just as vile as the wives. It took me a full week to read this book. In 'Bridgett World,' do you know what that means? Imma tell you. It means this book was B.O.R.I.N.G. I had zero desire to get back to it once I'd s......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on July 23, 2020

Mary, Eleanor and Nancy have been friends since university days nearly thirty years ago. Nancy appears to be happily married to Robert and Mary is unhappily married to Howard. One night at dinner, Nancy confesses to Eleanor that she has had an affair, later that night she is murdered. This terrible......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on September 09, 2020

An engaging and suspenseful look into the power of secrets Eleanor, Nancy, and Mary have been best friends since they met at Oxford. But then Nancy is murdered, leaving behind an adoring husband and a daughter. Her life, from the outside, was seemingly perfect. But Eleanor knows that the night Nancy......more

Goodreads review by Quirkychic on March 24, 2020

Since this would be only the second review on this book’s Goodreads page, I didn’t want to be too harsh but then I got to page 242 and now all bets are off. I read this book so you don’t have to. The concept of this story is great and the execution wasn’t too bad but the writing…oh, the writing!!! The......more