With thanks to the author, publishers HarperCollins UK Audio, and NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy of this work in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

A gripping plot, with some interesting twists along the way, and sprinkled with a few red herrings (Robert’s crash) to throw the reader off the scent, results in a very engaging tale of a woman driven to the edge of her sanity that will do all in her power to protect her family.

The author does a great job of building the pressure on Emma through a sequence of events that, while appearing largely innocuous and far-fetched to her, are interpreted by others in an entirely different way, and drastically change the perception of those around her about her. The increasing desperation of her plight is directly reflected in the ever-increasing worry and exasperation felt by Emma, as her situation gets more and more hopeless.

I did think it was a little hard to swallow how in the space of 10 days Emily’s relationship with her family went from being apparently fairly normal to a point where they lost all faith in her and thought she had lost her mind. It seemed a bit too easy that they automatically assumed she was at fault like they did, rather than show concern for her welfare.

That aside though, I really enjoyed this book and its big (and for me at least unexpected) reveal at the end, while the narrator did an excellent job with all of the characters, but with Emma in particular, to really enhance my experience of this book even more.

4.75/5. I love the way this author thinks, and my inability to predict much is wonderful. If you've never read Behind Her Eyes, the twists may not seem right, but I think they're fairly in keeping with that. I look forward to more books by them!

4 stars