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Imperfect Women

A Novel

Audiobook
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1 of 1 copy available

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

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 30, 2020
      This heart-wrenching psychological thriller from British author Hall (Our Kind of Cruelty) charts the fraught lives of three best friends from university. Nancy Hennessy has stayed ostensibly close to Eleanor Meakins and Mary Smithson in the nearly three decades since they were at Oxford together. When Nancy is murdered after meeting with her secret lover, Eleanor’s affair with Nancy’s husband becomes so engrossing and guilt-wracked that it keeps Eleanor from helping Mary with her husband’s illness. Three successive narratives center on the interior life of each woman: Eleanor immediately after the murder, Nancy in the time leading up to her death, and Mary further along in the murder’s aftermath. Hall shows each woman being emotionally drawn to doing something she knows is awful, revolting against feeling trapped, and feeling separated from her support system by guilt, evoking both empathy and outrage in the reader. The suspense alone is crafted skillfully enough to hold interest, but the dark portrait of the stifling nature of contemporary womanhood makes this story really stick. Agent: Lizzy Kremer, David Higham (U.K.).

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Helen Keeley brings her talent and narration experience to a story of three women. Nancy has been murdered, and her best friends, Eleanor and Mary, are in shock. Eleanor was aware that Nancy had been having an affair, but with limited details she is unable to guide the police to a possible suspect. Mary feels lost, and, what's more, her husband seems to be passing away right before her eyes with no explanation. The killer may be much closer than anyone thinks. Keeley smoothly moves between multiple regional British accents, giving each of the women an easily identifiable voice. As the audiobook shifts between the current day and the past, Keeley skillfully keeps the storyline clear for listeners. V.B. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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