AUDIOBOOK REVIEW - My Husband’s Wife

Title:   My Husband’s Wife

Author:  Alice Feeney

Publisher:  Flatiron Books/Macmillan Audio

Genre:   Mystery & Thrillers

Format:  Audio ALC

Narrator:  Bel Powley, Henry Rowley, Richard Armitage

Length:  8 hrs 58 mins

No. of Pages:  320

Date of Publication:  January 30, 2026 

Rating:   5 Stars

DESCRIPTION:

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.

One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person's date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.

My Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.

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MY THOUGHTS:

“Hearts that get broken can mend.”

“The past is a stalker following us throughout our lives. Never completely out of sight. Never far away enough to forget to fear.”

“Guilt is a thief that will steal everything if you let it catch up with you.”

Eden Fox has gone on a run. When she returns home a short while later, things aren’t quite right at her house in in Hope Falls called Spyglass. In fact, things couldn’t be more wrong. Her key doesn’t fit in the lock, another woman answers the door and her husband, Harrison Wolfe, claims that the woman who answered the door is his wife, not Eden Fox.

Is Eden Fox the rightful owner of Spyglass? If so, who is the woman there, and why does everything in the home then point to the other woman being married to her husband? 

Spyglass has a very unusual history. In fact, decades before, the then owner of Spyglass, Birdie, was popularly known as the woman who died twice. More than that, when Birdie discovers her terminally ill diagnosis, goes to an intriguing clinic in London that is said to have the ability to predict the exact date of one’s death. So, Birdie wants to let go of life on her own terms, and so she puts faith in the clinic.

Quite obviously there is a connection between Birdie of the past and whatever strange phenomenon that Eden is now facing. The police are no help to Eden, and thus the drama continues. This story is full of that drama, but also secrets and lies that bind the past with the present.

Factor in this thrilling story an even more thrilling audiobook. Not only was the narration by three brilliant voice actors utterly compelling, the drama in the story remained at a high ebb from beginning to end. Then factoring the creepy element between Birdy’s story and what is happening to Eden, I couldn't’ put this book down. 

Many thanks to Flatiron Books/Macmillan Audio and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alice Feeney is a New York Times million-copy bestselling author. Her books have been translated into over thirty-five languages, and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. Including His & Hers which is being made into major TV series by Netflix. 

Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years, and now lives in Devon with her family. 

Beautiful Ugly is her seventh novel.

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