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My Lovely Wife: The gripping Richard & Judy thriller that will give you chills this winter
Samantha Downing
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Description for My Lovely Wife: The gripping Richard & Judy thriller that will give you chills this winter
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY PICK
HOW WELL DO YOU REALLY KNOW THE PERSON YOU LOVE MOST?
Their life was just like yours. Nice house, great kids, the perfect life.
But they have a very dark secret.
You might think you've read stories like this before.
You're wrong.
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SHORTLISTED FOR ITW THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL, THE EDGAR AWARD AND THE GOODREADS AWARDS. WINNER OF THE DEAD GOOD READER AWARDS.
'The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night' Jane Corry, ... Read morebestselling author of The Dead Ex
'The most gripping psychological thriller of 2019' Stylist
'The next Gone Girl' Marie Claire
'A twisty, audacious, Gone Girl-y psychological thriller. The book that everyone is going to be talking about' Red
'Wow! My Lovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense' Harlan Coben
'Dexter meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year' C.J. Tudor
'Absolutely unputdownable' Liv Constantine
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Samantha Downing
Samantha Downing was born in the Bay Area, and currently lives in New Orleans. Her debut novel, My Lovely Wife, was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and a Sunday Times bestseller, and has been published in thirty languages. It won a Dead Good Reader Award, and was shortlisted for four other major awards: The CWA John Creasey Dagger, ... Read moreThe Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and The Macavity Award for Best First Mystery. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel. Her second novel, He Started It, was also a Sunday Times bestseller and her third novel, For Your Own Good, will soon be adapted for HBO Max by Robert Downey Jr. and Greg Berlanti. Show Less
Reviews for My Lovely Wife: The gripping Richard & Judy thriller that will give you chills this winter
We're calling it: My Lovely Wife is the most gripping psychological thriller of 2019... this book will keep you reading late into the night
Stylist
One of my favourite thrillers of the year - I couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end. Dark, chilling and compelling ... My Lovely Wife is a brilliant debut Wow! My ... Read moreLovely Wife is a stunner - full of twists, well-drawn characters, and riveting suspense Dexter meets Gone Girl - I loved this this brilliantly dark and twisted novel. One of the best books I've read this year! The twist at the end of the first chapter made me read through the night. Clever. Manipulative. Dark. Disturbing. What more can you ask for? Brilliant - I was enthralled by the premise and it totally delivered. Five star entertainment! Dark, shocking and very witty, this wickedly good read will make you run screaming from the suburbs
Heat
We're calling it now: Samantha Downing's creepy, sexy debut thriller is going to be the next Gone Girl.
Marie Claire
So beautifully and elegantly written . . . the ending is amazing and there is a great twist. I loved it.
Sophie Hannah An assured and deliciously engrossing debut. You'll surely devour My Lovely Wife, but it will linger long after you've reached the last page I pretty much inhaled this twisty, audacious, Gone Girl-y psychological thriller. This is the book that everyone is going to be talking about this summer. I can't shut up about it!
Red, The best Spring crime novels and thrillers
A genuinely fresh take on the psychological thriller genre. Expect dark humour and more loop-the-loops than a roller coaster
Good Housekeeping
A dark and irresistible debut
People
My Lovely Wife is a knockout. It's an effortless page-turner
Publishers Weekly
My Lovely Wife is dark, twisted-and impossible to put down. Samantha Downing has written a wickedly plotted and suspenseful psychological thriller A fantastic foray into what we know-and what we do not-about those closest to us. Intricately plotted, fascinating characters - I loved it! Domestic noir has rarely been darker . . . it's a psychological shocker
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Utterly gripping . . . Expect more twists and turns than a bowl of spaghetti and block out a whole day to read this, because you won't want to sleep until you're done
Red Online
This gripping page-turner offers a new take on the psychological thriller genre - the ideal beach read
Evening Standard
A dark and clever debut thriller
Prima
Suspenseful, shocking thriller. Deliciously dark
Best
Totally engrossing and I kept on thinking, one more chapter... an intelligent page-turner that makes you question everything Truly horrifying in the most delicious way. Samantha Downing sucks you in with a great story, pitch-perfect prose and disturbingly dead-on insights into the dark side of human nature. I hope I never meet her in a dark alley.... I couldn't pull myself away from this story - a terrifying and riveting window into the mind of the perfect suburban mother with a taste for murder. Make sure you clear your schedule before you pick it up. Absolutely unputdownable It's no mean feat to find something fresh in the crowded thriller field, but Downing pulls off an indisputable triumph with My Lovely Wife. Exemplary writing and outstanding pacing confirm Downing's talent, but it's her deliciously depraved characters that kept me flying through the pages. Couldn't get enough of this subversive love-gone-sideways tale! Deliciously dark and twisted... It's a remarkable achievement, full stop.
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Cosmopolitan
A highly original and dark look at the shifting power structure in a modern marriage. . . A funny, smart book
Daily Mail
Darkly witty and strangely plausible, it's a read-in-one-sitting firecracker of a thriller, laced with explosive twists
The People
A marital, psychological thriller with darkly comedic undertones
The Wrap
Bold and brilliant
Big Issue
This is a ringer of a yarn, shot through with enough tooth-clenching moments to make you have your dentist on speed dial
Connaught Telegraph
With a twisty plot that will leave you gasping, this deliciously dark thriller is on a par with Gone Girl
That's Life Monthly
One of the best thrillers I've ever read
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