Keep your friends close

Paula Daly

eAudio - 2014

Natty and Sean Wainwright have a rock-solid marriage and family. When their younger daughter falls ill on an overseas school trip, Natty rushes to her side. Luckily, Natty's best friend from college, Eve Dalladay, is visiting and offers to stay with Sean to lend a hand in the Wainwright household. But Natty returns home to find that Sean has fallen in love with Eve. Then Natty receives a mysterious note that says Eve has done this before and the consequences were fatal.

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Genres
Suspense fiction
Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2014.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Paula Daly (-)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Colleen Prendergast (-)
Edition
Unabridged
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 23 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781633790247
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Daly's strained sophomore effort fails to live up to her superb debut, Just What Kind of Mother Are You?. Wife, mother, and hotelier Natasha "Natty" Wainright has been friends with Eve Dalladay since university. When Natty's 14-year-old daughter, Felicity, falls ill on a school trip to France, she rushes to the girl's side, glad that Eve can help care for her family at home in England's Lake District. Ten days later, she returns to find that her husband, Sean, has fallen in love with Eve and moved with her to the Wainrights' hotel. Natty discovers that everything she believes about Eve is false; her friend survives by seducing men with money. When she rams Eve's car and Eve retaliates, Natty's own secrets are revealed in a spiral of violence that changes her family forever. Eve's unalloyed evil and Sean's extreme passivity are equally implausible. Daly's genuine gift for psychological nuance is afforded little room to shine. Agent: Jane Gregory, Gregory & Company (U.K.). (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

Natty Wainwright has everything she wanted out of life: a successful business, an adoring husband, and two beautiful daughters. She can't help it if it takes from sun up to sun down to keep the inn running smoothly, make sure the girls are taken care of, and maintain her own house the way she likes it. But when her younger daughter, who is away at camp, falls ill, Natty must rush to her side and leave her careful life behind. Fortunately, her best friend Eve, who is visiting when Natty leaves, agrees to stay and take care of things. Really take care of things. When Natty returns, everything has changed, and her life as she knew it is over. Verdict Daly (Just What Kind of Mother Are You?) has written another page-turner that's sure to please suspense/thriller lovers. Although the abruptness of what happens to Natty seems a bit unrealistic, readers will want to keep reading to find out what's next. The ending seems to indicate a sequel in the future. [This title was one of the "Books That Buzzed at the American Library Association Conference in Las Vegas," Prepub Alert, 7/7/14.-Ed.]-Cynthia Price, Francis Marion Univ. Lib., Florence, SC (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Daly's sophomore effort tackles the difficult subjects of adultery and betrayal.Natty multitasks, and that's a problem. She's the successful owner of an ultrahigh-end hotel in England, sharing duties with her handsome husband, Sean. The couple has two daughters and lives that are so busy they're hardly in the same room at the same timeand they rarely have time for sex. When their youngest daughter, Felicity, suffers a ruptured appendix while on a school trip to France, Natty rushes to her side, leaving a visitor, her recently arrived college buddy, Eve, a psychologist on the lecture circuit, to take care of Sean and their other daughter, Alice. And take care of them she does. Eve launches into an immediate campaign to seduce Sean, and by the time Natty returns with Felicity, Sean is no longer hers. Hurt and angry, Natty embarks on a campaign to get her family back and soon finds that everything she thought she knew was an illusion. In the meantime, a confrontation between Natty and Eve brings back police detective Joanne Aspinall, who first surfaced in Daly's debut novel (Just What Kind of Mother Are You?, 2013). Telling the tale in alternating voicesfirst person for Natty and third person for JoanneDaly takes multiple moving parts and weaves them into a cohesive whole. There's little mystery since the reader knows from the outset that Eve is cold and conniving, not caring whom she hurts; yet the author still manages to hold the reader's attention. Daly has grown considerably since her somewhat clumsy debut, but this time, she turns in a not-quite-perfect piece of fiction that still wins with its immensely likable heroine and her dastardly feminine foil.Although the idea that a happy marriage would dissolve in two weeks' time strikes a false note, Daly's second outing proves absorbing. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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