The Doctor's Wife: An absolutely gripping and unputdownable psychological thriller with a shocking twist

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Fern is married to Drew Devlin, a well-respected family doctor. Their marriage is one of perfection….if looking from the outside in. But Drew has a secret that he thinks is safe, and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned when Fern discovers he’s been cheating in their marriage with another married woman named, Alice. Fern plots her revenge in more ways than one and the destruction one you won’t be able to turn away from!

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Fern knows more than you think. Soon Drew wears down Alice, and their affair starts up again. He thinks Fern is unaware of his dirty secrets. However soon Drew will convince Fern to move to a small country village called Arberness. He tells Fern that he is so overwhelmed and exhausted working at his practice that he wants them to move to a small town where he will have fewer patients and problems to deal with. They will have so much more time “to spend together”, HA!!! It's very interesting the way this story is presented. Right off the bat you are allowed to know things that are usually revealed much later in the story. But that's the thing, this is less a mystery than it is a confession or more accurately, a not so humble brag. There is a lot of telling because both Fern and her husband Drew (that's Doctor Drew to anyone in earshot) are so very proud of their manipulations and secrets. If they can't tell anyone else of their "accomplishments", they will at least tell us. Daniel Hurst has definitely been busy this year. I have lost count on how many books he published on a short time. I have read his latest novels and I have to say. This one there is definitely the best out of them! Drew is the doctor in the story. As the novel opens Drew and his wife Fern are living in Manchester. Fern is a city girl and loves her house and neighborhood.On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.

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THANK YOUs: A BIG Thank you to @netgalley and @bookouture for gifting me this ALC (Advanced Listening Copy)! I have enjoyed several of Daniel Hurst's books, but The Doctor's Wife blew me away. Readers are kept guessing with plenty of red herrings in this cunning story. I love a well-written thriller and Hurst delivers. I wish there wasn't a prologue! Or at least doesn't include the death which was too big of a reveal. My mind was sort of set from then on and the story only confirms my prediction. If you haven't read the book, you might want to skip the prologue to chapter one. First off, I hated the female character—Fern. Boring, predictable and uninteresting. I don't know how to feel about this book. I didn't like it.

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Even in casual encounters the handsome and charming Drew introduces himself as ‘Doctor” (so....not so charming after all!). EXCERPT: As the woman at the window watched the activity on the beach, she knew the body on the sand was going to be the event that turned this quiet seaside village into a hive of activity for several days to come. This isolated place was usually only frequented by local residents, delivery drivers from the nearby towns and the occasional tourist passing in and out of Scotland. Now it would be teeming with forensic experts, journalists and bystanders harbouring a morbid curiosity. I initially felt sorry for Fern, until she started to reveal her true colours. I disliked Drew throughout. I could have felt sorry for Alice, but I don't. I do feel sorry for Rory. He was the true victim in all of this. He was easily manipulated by Fern, who is diabolically clever, and cold-hearted.