Watch Her Fall, Erin Kelly
Watch Her Fall, Erin Kelly
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Watch Her Fall
An utterly gripping and twisty edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller from the bestselling author

Author: Erin Kelly

Narrator: Imogen Church

Unabridged: 14 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2021

Synopsis

Black Swan meets Killing Eve - the brilliant new novel from Erin Kelly

Swan Lake is divided into the black acts and the white acts. The Prince is on stage for most of the ballet, but it's the swans audiences flock to see. In early productions, Odette and Odile were performed by two different dancers. These days, it is usual for the same dancer to play both roles. Because of the faultless ballet technique required to master the steps, and the emotional range needed to perform both the virginal Odette and the dark, seductive Odile, this challenging dual role is one of the most coveted in all ballet. Dancers would kill for the part.

Ava Kirilova has reached the very top of her profession. After years and years of hard graft, pain and sacrifice as part of the London Russian Ballet Company, allowing nothing else to distract her, she is finally the poster girl for Swan Lake. Even Mr K - her father, and the intense, terrifying director of the company - can find no fault. Ava has pushed herself ahead of countless other talented, hardworking girls, and they are all watching her now.

But there is someone who really wants to see Ava fall ...

(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

About Erin Kelly

Erin Kelly is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poison Tree, The Sick Rose, The Burning Air, The Ties That Bind, He Said/She Said, Stone Mothers/We Know You Know, Watch Her Fall, The Skeleton Key and The House of Mirrors, as well as Broadchurch: The Novel, inspired by the mega-hit TV series. In 2013, The Poison Tree became a major ITV drama and was a Richard & Judy Summer Read in 2011. He Said/She Said spent six weeks in the top ten in both hardback and paperback, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier crime novel of the year award, and selected for both the Simon Mayo Radio 2 and Richard & Judy Book Clubs. The Skeleton Key was selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month in 2023, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and reached number one in the Times chart. Born in London in 1976, Erin lives in north London with her husband and daughters. erinkelly.co.uk twitter.com/mserinkelly

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meredith (Trying to catch up!) on November 18, 2021

What a mind f*ck! 4.5 stars “Our Swan Lake is a thriller.” Watch Her Fall is a psychological thriller about a ballerina who is the star of an elite ballet company. Having scored the dual role of Odette and Odile in Swan Lake, she is under great pressure to dance to perfection. Not only is she battli......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on May 03, 2022

Holly hell! When I read the blurb I thought I’m reading more intense version of Black Swan but this is definitely something original, harsh, ultra realistic, mind blowing about the competitive, compelling, physiologically and mentally overwhelming world of ballerinas! The quote at the beginning is s......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on April 06, 2021

4-5 stars rounded up. Swan Lake is about to open at the London Russian Ballet Theatre run by Nikolai Kirilov who tyrannically instils rigorous Russian technique into the dancers in his company. Taking the lead role of Odette and Odile is Nikolai’s daughter Ava Kirilova. The storyline cleverly mirror......more

Goodreads review by Blair on April 02, 2021

I had a sick day (a sentence I am currently obligated to follow with the words ‘not Covid’) and decided to treat myself by getting stuck into Erin Kelly’s latest. Watch Her Fall is set, irresistibly, in the world of ballet, and – even better – against the backdrop of a production of Swan Lake. At 30......more

Goodreads review by Javier on March 23, 2021

Review published in: [URL not allowed] "Watch her fall" is partly set in the ruthless world of ballet, and I say partly cause contrary to what the synopsis implies, there's a large portion of the story that has almost nothing to do with it and, honestly, I found that a bit disa......more

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Watch Her Fall is a triumph of storytelling, full of swooping passion and explosive twists that will take your breath away. I was entranced from the first page, losing my heart to the characters and swept up in their stories which were seamlessly intertwined in the way only a writer at the height of her powers can achieve. An absolute joy of a book Sarah Hilary

In what I believe is her best book to date, Erin Kelly leaps into the dark and enchanting world of Russian ballet with a dancer's precision. The mesmeric tale of Ava Kirilova unfolds like the darkest and most delicious fairytale. I read it in two sittings and found myself enraptured, transported, spun around and left dizzy by the final page Charlotte Philby, bestselling author of Part of the Family and A Double Life

An immersive, addictive thriller set in the high-stakes world of ballet, with a jolting twist you absolutely won't see coming Claire McGowan, author of The Other Wife

Just finished Watch Her Fall - an elegant thriller set around the secretive world of elite Russian ballet. Powerful, ingenious and EXCITING. Loved peeking behind the curtain and learning about Swan Lake. Memorable characters and gasp-out-loud twists. SUPERB! Will Dean

Kelly's characters could walk into a room and take a seat next to you and you'd know who they were, and her plots are the smartest in the industry, but with this one she somehow captured the intense, constrained, sinister world of ballet. I absolutely loved it Gillian McAllister, author of Sunday Times bestseller How to Disappear

A captivating hall of mirrors of a novel, where nothing and no one is as they seem Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

I would read a shopping list from Erin Kelly, if it were set in the same rarified, cut-throat world in which she has set her latest novel. Watch Her Fall is not only a cleverly plotted, beautifully written thriller; it is also a mesmerising glimpse behind the curtain into a world few of us will ever see Clare Mackintosh

Think Black Swan meets Killing Eve, with the most brilliant twist Grazia Online

Superbly dark, gloriously twisted and utterly seductive - this is Erin Kelly at her mind-bending best Ruth Ware

Kelly's pirouetting plot is up there with her best Daily Express

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