The Favour: The gripping new thriller from an author 'at the top of British psychological suspense writing' (Observer)

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Liam vraagt haar om een bijzondere gunst: zou ze hem in het weekend willen ontmoeten in een cottage in Norfolk? It might have been more bearable with a different narrator, but this one read the whole thing as if she was auditioning for a melodrama. She’s never forgotten her first love, and when he suddenly reappears after all these years asking for a favor, she finds herself not only saying yes but also lying about it to her fiancé. Given the moral hold that Liam has on Jude, revealed later in the novel, it’s possible to accept that she might decide to grant his request.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. By the mid-nineties Sean had had two novels published, The Imaginary Monkey and The Dreamer of Dreams, as well as numerous non-fiction books, including biographies of Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. Now she’s tangled up in his life, the last person to have seen him, and maybe the only one who can uncover the truth about what went wrong—even if she destroys her own life in the process.This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading. She finds them all so mysterious and intriguing, and tall - apparently they are all so tall that they make her feel like a tiny little girl. In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love—but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her in a deadly web of secrets and lies.

She owes him and it seems a simple request, but of course she has no idea what lies behind it, and the outcome turns her whole life upside down. My alarm bells were going off straight away at this strange favour request, and my mind whirled as to what the motive could be behind it. I did hope for more of a shock at the end of the book as I did manage to piece together who the killer was at just over halfway through.

This book left me feeling unnerved and queasy from the unlikeable characters and situation in the story as a whole. Life moved on for both: Jude qualified as a doctor and is about to marry Nat; Liam tells her he has a young son, Alfie. Masquerading as crime fiction, beneath the facade is a covid/lockdown novel (despite the text making never a mention of either) which, at heart, thinks about who we are when all our usual support structures and routines disappear. Jude may be a geriatric doctor, so we know she must be rather clever, but she knows absolutely nothing of the world. Liam hasn't been in Judes life for over eleven years and pops up asking her to do a suspicious favour for him.

She is in a relationship and due to be married in a few months, then her first love turns up, asking if she’ll do a favour. The main detective who interviews Jude, Leila reads her well and all of a sudden the secret of many years is exposed which gives reason for Jude's involvement.I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and William Morrow and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased. You may ask yourself why TF would Jude do such a suspicious favour, but you'll learn that Jude is just a shell of a person. That these odious, and yet quickly forgettable, characters seem to have a hold on Jude is very hard to believe. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. What happened to Nat, I thought we’d find out about who his affair was with or whether they sorted things out.