Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that this stranger is his wife.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner named Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel and, as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.
One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.
Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner named Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel and, as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.
Wow wow wow!
This is my first book by Alice Feeney but I am now desperate to pick up another after finishing My Husband's Wife as she weaved an intricate web of twists and turns that completely blindsided me.
This book had me hooked from the very first chapter when Eden arrives home and everything has changed, my mind started working ten to the dozen trying to come up with a rational solution for how on earth there could be what seems like two Edens and coming up with nothing but then the storyline starts weaving off again and more questions keep arising and I was mind boggled by it all but equally so intrigued to get to the bottom of this twisted turn of events.
The chapters alternate between many characters points of views but this works really well for this book because you see things through their eyes and start building pictures of people and events and soon you are suspicious of everyone.
So much happens and it is a fast paced book with what felt like no safe space to put it down and anytime I did stop I found myself drawn back to it before long with my mind working overtime.
Just when you think its all wrapped up your head is then thrown into another spin!
If you love completely unpredictable gripping reads with a sinister undertone that will put your head in a spin trying to solve the unsolvable then this book won't disappoint. This is my first 5 star of the year.
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