The Opportunist, Elyse Friedman
The Opportunist, Elyse Friedman
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The Opportunist

Author: Elyse Friedman

Narrator: Senn Annis

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2022


Synopsis

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious family.

When Alana Shropshire’s seventy-six-year-old father, Ed, starts dating Kelly, his twenty-eight-year-old nurse, a flurry of messages arrive from Alana’s brothers, urging her to help “protect Dad” from the young interloper. Alana knows that what Teddy and Martin really want to protect is their father’s fortune, and she tells them she couldn’t care less about the May–December romance. Long estranged from her privileged family, Alana, a hardworking single mom, has more important things to worry about.

But when Ed and Kelly’s wedding is announced, Teddy and Martin kick into hyperdrive and persuade Alana to fly to their father’s West Coast island retreat to perform one simple task in their plan to make the gold digger go away. Kelly, however, proves a lot more wily than expected, and Alana becomes entangled in an increasingly dangerous scheme full of secrets and surprises. Just how far will her siblings go to retain control?

Smart, entertaining and brimming with shocking twists and turns, The Opportunist is both a thrill ride of a story and a razor-sharp view of who wields power in the world.


About Elyse Friedman

Elyse Friedman is a critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, poet and playwright. Her work has been short-listed for the Trillium Book Award, Toronto Book Award, ReLit Award and Tom Hendry Award. She has also won a Foreword Book of the Year Award, as well as the 2019 TIFF-CBC Films Screenwriter Jury Prize and the 2020 TIFF-CBC Screenwriter Award. Elyse lives in Toronto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie

The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman is a domestic suspense novel that dives into the dark side of a wealthy family. The story does have some flashing back to the past but is mostly told in the present timeline. Alana Shropshire has been estranged from her wealthy family not wanting to be involved in th......more

This was a quick, fun read with unlikeable, greedy characters. Lol! Alana is a single mom to her daughter that has MS. She's estranged from her family by her choice and seems to be making it on her own just fine. Her family is very wealthy though. Her father Ed, who is 76 is planning to marry his yo......more

Which one of the Shropshires is the biggest opportunist and liar? The choices are Kelly, Martin, Alana, Teddy, and Ed - the father. What will they do to keep their father's fortune when Kelly the 28-year-old nurse to their father is going to marry him. They know she only wants his money. We meet all th......more

The Opportunist by Elyse Friedman. Thanks to @mirabooks @htpbooks @netgalley for the gifted Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alana doesn’t want anything to do with her estranged, wealthy father or her brothers. When her father starts dating his nurse, forty eight years younger than him, she goes back to assist in stop......more