The Wife Between Us: A Novel

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· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Julia Whelan
4.3
85 reviews
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11 hr 30 min
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"Julia Whelan reads the novel in her low, pleasant voice, moving down a register to capture Richard's infuriating condescension and lightening slightly for the younger Emma. With its perfidious turns, this escapist entertainment is a fine example of the 21st century's more cynical version of the O. Henry ending." The Washington Post

From Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen comes the next hit audiobook thriller, an instant New York Times bestseller!

When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions.
You will assume you are listening to a story about a jealous ex-wife.
You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love.
You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle.
Assume nothing.

Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love.

Listen for the truth between the lies.


Praise for The Wife Between Us:

"Addictive domestic thrillers with twist-filled plots and unreliable narrators are increasingly popular. Add in assumptions that should not be assumed, shape-shifting, surprising characters and a complex chronology, and you have a hint of what you'll find in The Wife Between Us...All will be made clear, or perhaps not, as you listen to Julia Whelan's tautly paced performance." BookPage

“A clever thriller with masterful twists.” – Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Kept Woman

"Readers who were enthralled by B.A. Paris's Behind Closed Doors and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will love the skewed psychology and shifting perspectives in this domestic thriller." - Library Journal

"A fiendishly clever romantic thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. This one will keep you guessing." –Anita Shreve, New York Times bestselling author of The Stars are Fire

"A twisty, mind-bending novel about marriage and betrayal. A gripping plot and fascinating characters; this book will keep you turning the pages and guessing until the very end. A must-read!" –Lauren Weisberger, New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada

This audiobook contains a bonus interview with the authors

Ratings and reviews

4.3
85 reviews
CINDY MITCHELL
June 18, 2019
Long and boring. Beautifully written, but the story was very drawn out and boring. Every detail about everything except what was happening. I don't need 2 chapters to explain what someone was wearing. I expected more drama. It was a long, drawn out story with boring characters. When you finally get to the good parts you are hours into it and its not even that good! Overall, dull in my opinion and I am very surprised how many 5 star rating it received. Not suspenseful at all. its just...Blah.
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Patty Sherman
March 29, 2019
Story is soooo long. I still have 3 hours to go. I feel like it just started getting to the relevant part and the last 7 hours could have been 5 hours fewer. The narrator is good, but I won't listen to her work consecutively again. The male characters run together a little bit to me. I think varying her reads would fix that for me though. I like her voice.
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Lane Hill
March 7, 2018
Wow!! Just wow!! I have not been this impressed with a book since The Lovely Bones debuted. I feel like I have been hit by a Mack truck. This book is beyond anyone's imagining and you will never figure it out on your own right down to the epilogue. I hated every main character in this book, but still I could not turn away because the story was so mesmerising. I had a hard time trying to read Gone Girl because I could not stand any of the characters so I put it down, but I loved the movie. Go figure. This was different. Completely. I hope Hollywood doesn't screw this up when they get their hands on it. It's funny. I know Reese Witherspoon is responsible for Gone Girl being on the cinema screen, and I hope this lands in her hands, but I used her visage for one of the main characters in the book. I also used the visages of Margot Robie, Joaquin Phoenix, Kim Cattral, Amandla Stenberg, and Joyce Van Patten. I will say no more.
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About the author

GREER HENDRICKS spent over two decades as an editor at Simon & Schuster. Prior to her tenure in publishing, she worked at Allure magazine and obtained her masters's in journalism from Columbia University. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Greer lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children. The Wife Between Us is her first novel.

SARAH PEKKANEN is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of seven previous novels. A former investigative journalist and feature writer, her work has been published in The Washington Post, USA Today, and many others. She is the mother of three sons and lives just outside Washington, D.C.

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