The Loving Husband, Christobel Kent
The Loving Husband, Christobel Kent
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The Loving Husband
A Novel

Author: Christobel Kent

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/14/2017


Synopsis

From the international bestselling author of The Crooked House comes an utterly gripping psychological thriller spanning the traditions of Daphne du Maurier and S. J. Watson.

“Be careful, Fran,” the man said quietly. “About what you think you know.”

In a dilapidated farmhouse out in the vast waterlogged plains of the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her baby’s cries one February night and finds the bed empty beside her. Her husband, Nathan, is gone.

Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery that upends her marriage and any semblance of safety. As she tries desperately to make sense of what happened to Nathan, Fran is forced to delve dangerously into the undercurrents of his claustrophobic hometown and question how well she knew him in the first place. Fran, increasingly isolated, grows paranoid—but Nathan isn’t the only one hiding something. Though she can’t tell a soul, Fran is shielding a damning secret of her own: a hazy, dreamlike memory from the night of Nathan’s disappearance that might be the key to it all.

Christobel Kent’s The Loving Husband is spooky and skillfully written, dragging readers deep into the unsettling world of the Fens and into a marriage of half-truths and past lives, where no one can be trusted—especially not your spouse.

About Christobel Kent

Christobel Kent was born in London and grew up in London and Essex, including a stint on the Essex coast on a Thames barge with three siblings and four step-siblings, before reading English at Cambridge. She has worked in publishing and TEFL teaching, and has lived in Modena, in northern Italy, and in Florence. She has written several novels set in Italy, including The Drowning River and A Murder in Tuscany, and lives in Cambridge with her husband and five children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on July 23, 2016

When the email came through from the publisher about this book, it said "for fans of domestic thrillers" and I was like: is that me? That's me, isn't it?! I must read it. I won't mention the book that this is obviously being compared to (two words, rhymes with John Swirl) or the bestseller from last......more

Goodreads review by Miriam on March 09, 2018

I'm very disappointed not to be giving "The Loving Husband" by Christobel Kent five stars as I really did enjoy the interesting and intriguing story to the book. However, the writing style really let it down for me, there was constantly unfinished and stuttering sentences and a narrative I just coul......more

Goodreads review by Arah-Lynda on March 10, 2017

You know back when I first started reading Linwood Barclay I thought now here is a guy that pens what I would call domestic thrillers.  I had never really put those two words together before when describing a book.  Now it seems that there is  glut of books on the market that fit that description an......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 08, 2017

The book opens with a scene that is shocking and strange. It grabbed me. I knew I’d learn more of the people involved and I wanted that; I needed to make sense of this bewildering event. First I’d learn of the past. Fran was once a dedicated career woman, writing for a magazine in London, but she di......more

Goodreads review by Fiona on September 16, 2019

Was the general consensus that this was a good story, or not? I was extremely torn, mainly because although the story had the makings of a good plot, the bloody thing went on so long I was starting to lose the will to live. Why did it need to be so long and bulky? The plot and the finale could've been......more