Helpful Score: 2
I'm late to the party with The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth, so many readers are familiar with its premise. A perfect family (dad, mum, and two adorable young daughters) move into a lovely seaside cottage in a coastal town in Australia. But they don't live there happily ever after. Gabe and Pippa soon discover their dream home is near The Drop, a popular place for people to end their lives. Gabe has uncanny success in saving many visitors ... until the evening when a woman named Amanda comes to the cliff.
A queen of domestic suspense novels, The Soulmate is firmly in Ms. Hepworth's wheelhouse. It's written in first person from Pippa and Amanda's points of view; each tells their story now and then. The chapters are short and quickly propelled me through this 320-page story. As the story of two marriages progresses, readers learn the many ways these four adults were intertwined. A few of the reveals were surprising while others were fairly obvious.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Barrie Kreinik (who's narrated several of Ms. Hepworth's novels) and Jessica Douglas-Henry. Having a separate narrator for each of the primary woman characters enhanced my listening experience.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for the review copy of this novel
A queen of domestic suspense novels, The Soulmate is firmly in Ms. Hepworth's wheelhouse. It's written in first person from Pippa and Amanda's points of view; each tells their story now and then. The chapters are short and quickly propelled me through this 320-page story. As the story of two marriages progresses, readers learn the many ways these four adults were intertwined. A few of the reveals were surprising while others were fairly obvious.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Barrie Kreinik (who's narrated several of Ms. Hepworth's novels) and Jessica Douglas-Henry. Having a separate narrator for each of the primary woman characters enhanced my listening experience.
Thank you to St. Martin's Press for the review copy of this novel
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