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My Lover's Lover

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Julia Watson
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A compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan lives.

From the Costa Award winning Maggie O'Farrell comes the Sunday Times top 10 best seller My Lover's Lover, an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca.

When Lily moves into Marcus's flat and plunges headlong into a relationship, she must contend not merely with the disapproval of flatmate Aidan, but with a more intangible, hostile presence. Could it be that Sinead, Marcus's ex, is trying to communicate with her? When Lily begins to 'see' Sinead, first about the flat and then on the streets of London, she must question not merely her sanity, but whether the man she loves is someone she can, or indeed ought, to live with at all.

©2002 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2012 Headline Digital Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A quietly dramatic dissection of the way past loves can haunt the present." ( Daily Telegraph)
"This Rebecca-esque ghost story puts at its heart the gnawing insecurities that any act of intimacy soon invites." ( Independent)
"O'Farrell's writing has a crystalline precision of idiom - there isn't one image that fails to ignite recognition." ( Independent on Sunday)

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Dreadful

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

A better narrator, a more believable story.

What could Maggie O'Farrell have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

She could have set up a relationship between Marcus and Lilly. Why did she love him??

How could the performance have been better?

The whole novel was narrated as if it was suspenseful.

What character would you cut from My Lover's Lover?

Lilly, Marcus

Any additional comments?

I don't know why I kept listening to it. I think because other Maggie O'Farrell's books have been good.

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