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The First Mistake

By: Sandie Jones
Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe
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The First Mistake is the stunning second novel from The Other Woman author Sandie Jones, who delivers twist after heart-stopping twist, in this addictively listenable domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and her best friend.

Two women. Best friends.

Through the ups and downs of life, from celebrating and nights out to comforting each other through divorce and death, Alice and Beth know that together they can survive anything. That they trust each other implicitly.

When Alice’s husband, Nathan, starts going on more and more business trips, Alice starts to suspect he is having an affair, and the first person that she turns to is Beth, asking for her help in finding out the truth.

Because if Beth knew something about Nathan, she’d tell Alice - wouldn’t she?

After all that’s what best friends do....

©2019 Sandie Jones (P)2019 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
Psychological Suspense Women's Fiction Fiction Marriage Heartfelt

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Overall, unconvincing

This story just gets muddy, after a promising start and some clever possibilities established. For the final third of the book, I was just saying "umm...what now?" None of the characters are appealing, so I couldn't invest in what happened to them and the story just felt silly by the end. I am happy to believe any outlandish ideas, if they are established and communicated effectively, however this wasn't effective. There were several storylines or elements that never went anywhere and that was frustrating and overall is was just confusing and unconvincing.

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Good book

Really enjoyed this book. Found the voice a little monotonous to begin with but story got better and better. Hard to put down in the end.

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awesome twisted tale

what a great book absolutely did not pick the ending...keeps you in suspense until the end

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The first mistake

This is a great book, I hate it when you guess the ending halfway through, but right until near the end, I didn’t see the plot opening like this. Really enjoyed it.

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Beautifully performed, shame about the storyline

Unbelievable yet predictable plot. Infuriating characters (why, in 2020, are we still painting women to be mindless idiots?!). The ending was acutely bizarre. Lifted up by the narrator who did a superb job.

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