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A Simple Favour

By: Darcey Bell
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Xe Sands, Matthew Waterson
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A Simple Favour is a twisting free-fall ride filled with betrayal, reversal, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty. Darcey Bell ratchets up the tension in a taut, unsettling and completely absorbing thriller that holds you in its grip until the final minute.

It starts with a simple favour - an ordinary kindness mothers do for one another.

When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school, she happily says yes.

Their children are classmates and best friends. And five-year-olds love being together - just like she and Emily. As a widow and stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a glamorous and successful PR executive.

The trouble is that Emily doesn't come back. No matter what the police say, Stephanie knows that she would never leave her son. Terrified, she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers.

And she also reaches out to Emily's husband - just to offer her support.

What Stephanie hasn't shared are the secrets buried in a murky past.

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"A psychological thriller that is as hip and relevant as it is gripping.... I couldn't stop reading about these two truly terrifying moms!" (Plum Sykes, author of Bergdorf Blondes)

"Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller about a missing wife and mother that relies on a rotating cast of unreliable narrators to ingeniously examine the cost of competitive mom-friends, the toll of ordinary marital discontent and the fallacy of the picture-perfect, suburban family." (Kimberly McCreight, author of international bestseller Reconstructing Amelia)
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I didn’t have an issue with the voice actors narrating this book – the bad review is really because this book sucks. I got it because the movie trailer based on it looked interesting. Big mistake. This book is not well-written. It’s overly descriptive for no reason. Something that I found very annoying was that on a number of occasions the author uses two unrelated catch-phrases that contradict each other in the same sentence. The characters are all annoying and flat. They all carry on, providing ridiculous, superfluous details that don’t make sense. I got halfway, and decided to return this book because my head was going to explode from rolling my eyes so much.

Seriously cringy

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Horrible story nothing of redeeming value. Bad characters poorly written. I cringed every time I heard “hi, moms”

Good narration

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