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    The Betrayals
    The Betrayals
    The Betrayals
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Betrayals

    Written by Fiona Neill

    Narrated by Kate Lock, Sarah Ovens, Huw Parmenter and David Thorpe

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    When Rosie's best friend has an affair with her husband, the consequences reverberate through the lives of the two families. Relationships are torn apart, friendships shattered and childish innocence destroyed. Her daughter Daisy's fragile hold on reality begins to unravel when a letter arrives that opens old wounds. Rosie's son Max blames himself for everything that happened. And her ex-husband Nick has his own version of events. As long-repressed memories bubble to the surface, the past has never seemed more present and the truth more uncertain.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateOct 1, 2018
    ISBN9781684413294

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    • 3/5
      What the actual F#ck.....that ending! Staggering, but ineffectual.Too much left hanging.Nick deserves total annihilation and we,the readers, need to see it!
    • 3/5
      Not my usual type of book. This is the story of the Rankin family Mum Rosie, Dad Nick, Older Sister Daisy and younger brother Max The book jumps 9 years.They used to be friends with another couple Lisa and Barney their children Ava and Rex they all went on holiday to Norfolk together. Barney is a bit of a loser and has a Drink problem. Eventually Nick and Lisa have an affair and are about to get married. Lisa is dying of cancer. Rosie is a cancer specialist and even though she doesnt forgive Lisa wants to help save her life as she is wasting precious time on silly alternative remedys. Daisy has really bad OCD and Max is training to be a Doctor. Daisy OCD started when she thinks she witnessed her Dad and Lisa having sex on holiday years ago. But this didnt actually happen. Nick who is actually a bit of a love rat is cheating on Lisa with Connie who happens to be Max's on off Girlfriend. On the Wedding day some truths are revealed. Also Rosie gets with Barney who has now cleaned up his act.
    • 5/5
      Told from the perspective of four members of a family now, & their individual remembrances of an unhappy holiday some years before. Mum - an oncologist, Dad - a researcher in memory, their OCD student daughter, & their medical student son.Contemporary tale of a marriage breakdown: mother & son are both on Tinder, daughter is being bullied via Facebook. Believable, faulted characters. Fiona has done her research in OCD traits, the medical world, and pokes fun at alternative healers.A central, fascinating theme is how characters variously remember events & come up with different interpretations, with devastating consequences. A fascinating read, with an interesting ensemble cast.
    • 3/5
      Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin for this ARC. Opinion is mine alone. Rating is a low C-.

      I requested this book by the cover and jacket description. For some reason, I found this a very slow and boring read. Told in 4 voices, I must admit that I didn’t like any of the characters very much. This book tackles many issues...OCD (which was done very well), infidelity, divorce, bullying, cancer, modern dating, alcoholism. So many issues! I felt like there was nothing resolved at the end and it left me not caring about any of the characters.

      I did like the descriptive writing style and would read this author again.
    • 3/5
      I usually enjoy stories which are written from multiple points of view but, for some reason this one, although easy to read, never fully engaged my attention and I often felt bored by the characters, as well as by what felt like a much too repetitive storyline. Maybe I've read too many stories like this and so found it difficult to identify a unique "voice" or plot. However, I'm very aware that the novel has had enthusiastic reviews so I think the problem may lie with me rather than the writing!
    • 5/5
      This book is all about memories, and the way they become corrupted or differ from the actual facts. One of the characters is a specialist in the area, and there were all sorts of interesting insights to be had in the sections he narrated. Demonstrating that nobody remembers things exactly the way they happened he comments "the past is a vanished shadow". I found that phrase particularly striking and kind of bleak. If I remember one sentence from this book a year from now I bet it will be that one, ironically.Aside from this, here is an interest-packed story of two families in crisis, in which the humour - and it is good humour - is oddly enough to be found in the sections where one of the characters is terminally ill. Chapters are alternately narrated by members of one of the families, and each had an impressively separate voice, such that I looked forward to some and was a bit irritated by others - Daisy in particular I found a difficult read, which is not to say that her sections were badly written - it was more a question of the content. And Ada...what a cow. Surely I'm not alone in thinking she got off lightly. What a great read.