What You Did Audiobook By Claire McGowan cover art

What You Did

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

What You Did

By: Claire McGowan
Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt, Karen Cass
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.00

Buy for $20.00

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

“A brilliant, breathless thriller that kept me guessing to the last shocking page.” - Erin Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.

It was supposed to be the perfect reunion: six university friends together again after twenty years. Host Ali finally has the life she always wanted, a career she can be proud of and a wonderful family with her college boyfriend, now husband. But that night her best friend makes an accusation so shocking that nothing will ever be the same again.

When Karen staggers in from the garden, bleeding and traumatised, she claims that she has been assaulted - by Ali’s husband, Mike. Ali must make a split-second decision: who should she believe? Her horrified husband, or her best friend? With Mike offering a very different version of events, Ali knows one of them is lying - but which? And why?

When the ensuing chaos forces her to re-examine the golden era the group shared at university, Ali realises there are darker memories too. Memories that have lain dormant for decades. Memories someone would kill to protect.

©2019 by Claire McGowan. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Crime Marriage

Critic reviews

“Hitting the rare sweet spot between a satisfying read and a real page turner, this brilliantly written book deserves to fly high.” (Cass Green, best-selling author of In a Cottage In a Wood)

Unexpected Twists • Captivating Storyline • Pleasant Voice • Well-written Characters • Engaging Mystery • British Accent
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
I loved the premise and it didn’t turn out like I thought it would. I could hardly stop listening to it. It was really good!

Great Mystery!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What ever you think happened is probably not what happened. Friends are often different from how we see them from the outside.

Convoluted with plot twists and turns. Good read.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was a captivating story line, the narrator's voice took a little getting used to. But the story was great made it hard to stop listening.

story was great

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You were reminded of certain things so many times that I almost stopped listening simply because of being bored. The main character was not particularly like able. The story was predictable.

Not great, not terrible

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Not sure what the bad reviews are about, I enjoyed this book very much! Suspenseful and well written. Im going to look for more books by the author now!

Loved it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I had read another book by the author (Are You Awake?) and I quite liked that one, so I decided to look for another one of her books to read. This one was interesting and kept me reading because I wanted to know how it ended, but was not as good as the other one. Mainly because the main character was so unlikable. I couldn’t sympathize or empathize with her beyond the back story that she came from an abusive household, which made some of her choices (such as basically marrying for money to get away from that life) somewhat understandable. However. The stupidity and hypocrisy of this woman in the present day garnered no sympathy from me. She volunteered for an organization that helped women dealing with domestic violence, and in the beginning is very vocal about it. Her husband is very dismissive about her “feminist issues”, and I found myself wondering why she would be with a man who felt that way, but she stood her ground so I was like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But once her friend says she was SA, the MC starts parroting the cliché phrases she claimed to hate in the beginning. “She was drunk” “she’s a flirt” “She sleeps around anyway” etc, etc.
The accused was her husband, so some sort of denial that her own husband would SA her best friend is understandable, but the continuation of this hypocrisy through the WHOLE BOOK was super annoying. She kept making excuses for the r*pist, even after more things come to light, even after she has a talk with the friend who was SA. There is no growth on her end.
Anyway, I would definitely recommend caution for anyone reading this that is triggered by topics of SA. While the perpetrator does get caught, the constant invalidation of the survivor by her own friend could be very damaging for someone to read.

The narrator was pretty good, my only qualm is the voice she did for the 10 year old boy; she made him sound like a whiny 5 year old and it was a bit distracting whenever he was in the scene. Luckily, he wasn’t in the book much so it didn’t ruin it over all.

Engrossing story, infuriating characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Kept me guessing the whole time! so many moral dilemmas and what ifs! Great story!

twisty

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Just sad about the vulgarity- Why is that necessary- for me it dims a fantastic talent. Bar the cursing, I would have given 5 stars —

Perfectly written, So well done

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really exciting. Truths were revealed up until the end. A must read! The audio version very well done.

So Many Twists and Turns!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Everything on the cover of this book is right. Brilliant, breathless to the last SHOCKING page.

Damn

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews