A Very Inconvenient Scandal, Jacquelyn Mitchard
A Very Inconvenient Scandal, Jacquelyn Mitchard
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A Very Inconvenient Scandal
A novel

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrator: Caroline Hewitt

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2023


Synopsis

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a page-turning family drama that explores the emotional consequences of loyalty, deception and jealousy. 

Stunned by her recently widowed father’s reckless behavior, a young woman must learn to navigate a new world—where the people she should trust the most have become strangers she cannot trust at all.

Frankie Attleboro returns home to Cape Cod with thrilling news. She’s met the love of her life, and they’re getting married with a baby on the way. That’s the moment her father makes his own jaw-dropping announcement: at sixty, he’s getting married as well, to Frankie’s best friend, Ariel, who is also pregnant, and due soon.

As Frankie and Ariel struggle to adjust to their new relationship, Ariel’s estranged mother, Carlotta, returns after a decade-long absence. She claims to be a changed woman—but is she really? And where has she been all these years? Frankie is suspicious, and as Carlotta’s unpredictable behavior intensifies, Frankie must untangle the threads of the past to protect Ariel’s future—and her own.

"The characters and relationships are all smartly drawn, and the narrative is shot through with plenty of humor and scandal. Mitchard fans will lap this up."—Publishers Weekly

About Jacquelyn Mitchard

Jacquelyn Mitchard is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels for adults, seven novels for teenagers, and five children’s books. These include The Deep End of the Ocean, the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. She is also a professor of creative writing whose short stories, articles, essays and book reviews have been widely published. A native of Chicago, she now lives on Cape Cod with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on February 10, 2024

Catching up… Families are complicated. And… It doesn’t help when you have happy news, only to find out something about your parents that you didn’t really want to know. How… Could her father be so selfish? And… Doing this with her former best friend? And then… After all these years, her mother shows up? My......more

Goodreads review by Maren’s Reads on November 29, 2023

3.5-4⭐️ This was a bit different than I had envisioned going in, and yet I still found myself fully immersed in this scintillating family drama, literally from the go. The story is quite a mashup with elements of literary fiction, domestic suspense and even a touch of romance. The author does a fant......more

Goodreads review by Kara on April 13, 2024

2.5 stars. Weird book for me, was hard to tell if the focus was the family dramas, the nature and photography of nature or the research foundation. Was definitely busy and don’t feel it did any of those areas really well. Should have picked one and focused on it and maybe less on the others. I didn’t......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa on November 20, 2023

This was just completely disjointed. There were some decent characters (and some ridiculous) and somehow the storytelling was good enough to keep me going. But what was the main theme? What was the primary story? It also felt like plot points were just skipped over. Sloppy.......more

Goodreads review by Mena on January 20, 2025

if you read this as a domestic thriller, you will be disappointed. if you read this as a family drama where you slowly learn everybody’s dirty little secrets… it’s literally awesome......more