The Echo Wife

Name: The Echo Wife
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)
Author: Sarah Gailey
ISBN: 9781250755131

Author: Sarah Gailey

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 02/16/2021

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.

It took me so long to hate him.

Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be.

And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband.

Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up.

Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About Sarah Gailey

Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their work includes their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic For Liars (Tor Books, 2019), Just Like Home (Tor Books, 2022), and their original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Know Your Station. Their shorter works and essays have been published in Mashable, The Boston Globe, Vice, Tor.com, and The Atlantic. Their work has been translated into several different languages and published around the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Yun on April 05, 2022

The premise of The Echo Wife is insanely good. Evelyn Caldwell is a scientist at the forefront of cloning technology. Unfortunately, her husband Nathan doesn't love her anymore. Instead, he has transferred his affections to a clone of her named Martine. Evelyn is understandably upset about this. But......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on June 07, 2022

Westworld (more understandable version) meets Stepford Wives and Orphan Black kind of story is freshly baked from the oven. I see five sizzling, well-deserved, shiny stars dancing above my head! This is more entertaining, mind bending, grey cells frying, soul shaking, heart throbbing adventure than......more

Goodreads review by Lisa of Troy on February 11, 2024

Who would you be? Evelyn Caldwell is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in cloning research. She has a secret though. Her husband is cheating on her. With Evelyn’s clone. This story provided so much food for thought, and I loved noodling on the questions raised by this book. Who would you be if you wer......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on July 14, 2020

I know that February 2021 is lightyears away, but please do yourself a favor and add this thrilling read to your TBR now. A little bit of The Wife Between Us, a little bit Blake Crouch, and add in a dash of Big Little Lies and Killing Eve, and you'll become acquainted with The Echo Wife! If the scie......more

Goodreads review by jessica on March 16, 2021

this story wasnt what i thought it would be, but i still very much enjoyed it. i think because i went into this expecting a mystery/thriller (especially because the synopsis heavily implies a murder), i kept trying to look for things that werent there, i kept hoping for twists that never came, i kept......more