The Almost Wife, Gail AndersonDargatz
The Almost Wife, Gail AndersonDargatz
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The Almost Wife
A Novel

Author: Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Narrator: Erin Bennett

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/06/2021

Synopsis

If you almost had everything that you wanted, how hard would you fight to protect it? Kira is engaged to the man of her dreams: he’s charming, handsome, wealthy, and a great dad to their baby, Evie, and his thirteen-year-old daughter, Olive. Having grown up with a troubled relationship with her mother and mostly estranged from her father, Kira craves a close family and secure home, and with Aaron, Evie and Olive, she almost has it. The only problem is Aaron’s ex-wife, Madison, who’s out of control and trying to get to Olive. When Kira takes the girls out of town to her childhood summer home and finds out that Madison has followed them, she panics. Between the beach and the forest on Manitoulin Island, Kira fights to protect Olive, Evie and her fiancé, until a dark secret threatens to unravel the life that is almost hers. With the future she has built hanging in the balance, and her past haunting her at every turn, Kira must choose who to believe and who she wants to be.  

About Gail Anderson-Dargatz

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s first novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK’s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel, A Recipe for Bees, was nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Spawning Grounds was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and short-listed for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. Her thriller, The Almost Wife, hit the Canadian bestseller lists in 2021. She taught for nearly a decade in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now mentors writers online. Gail Anderson-Dargatz lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marsha

WOW! This was an unputdownable thriller! Many flawed characters who come together in the most propulsive way, making the reader want to strangle them in frustration but also wanting to give them all a hug. Brava Gail Anderson-Dargatz. You've hit it out of the ballpark with this one.......more

Goodreads review by Shannon

I loved this Canadian domestic suspense thriller set mainly on Manitoulin island. What better place to have to deal with "island time," shoddy cell reception and an overabundance of deer! As someone who has spent a lot of time on the island I loved all the references to different parts and couldn't......more

Goodreads review by Virginia

I almost liked this. Unfortunately, the missing-husband-she-didn't-really-know plot has been done to death (I just finished another one yesterday), and a few of the twists could be spotted very early on. There was only one real surprise for me and by that point in the book it didn't make any differe......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

I would never have believed this book was written by Anderson-Dargatz. I loved all her previous novels, and it's like she was pressured to write a suspense novel for the masses. This book is so not her. Reads more like a Shari Lapena novel. Which is fine if that's the kind of author you are, but thi......more

Goodreads review by Emily

I could not put down this action packed thriller. Mostly because I needed to know that the baby was okay! While I couldn't put it down, I felt there was basically no character development and I'm pretty sure I'll mostly forget it. Good to read if you are looking for something that keeps you wanting......more

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