Lucky
- Author Rachel Edwards
- Narrator Jessica Hayles
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 24 June 2021
- Run Time 8 hours and 49 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Political / legal thriller, Psychological thriller, Social and ethical issues, Social attitudes, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
‘I devoured it.’ Erin Kelly
‘An exhilarating voice’ Adele Parks
‘Unbelievably tense and twisty.’ Laura Marshall
Lucky
Rachel Edwards
The more she wins, the more she loses…
‘Absorbing, unsettling, unflinching. I’ve been thinking about it for days and I’ll be recommending it to everyone.’ Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies
Someone is watching Etta. Footsteps in the night, the security light coming on at strange hours … is it all just her curtain-twitching neighbours, who seem to monitor her every move? Or is her little online problem making her paranoid?
Because Etta needs to win big. She joined a gambling website to get a bit of cash, hoping to convince her boyfriend Ola that they can afford to get married. And she was so good at it … until she wasn’t. Luckily, she’s made a friend who hit the jackpot and if she plays her cards right, he could lend her the money to win everything back. Easy. So why does she feel so afraid?
Critics Review
‘Betrayal, blackmail, a marriage on hold…all the ingredients of a page-turning thriller, in a post-Brexit world of debt and insecurity.’ Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch
n‘Terrifying. Enough to make the reader break out in a cold sweat.’ Guardian
n‘A fresh, exhilarating voice’ Adele Parks
n‘Unbelievably tense and twisty’ Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request
n‘This deep dive into gambling addiction packs a huge emotional punch. I devoured it’ Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said
n‘A brilliant portrayal of one woman’s descent into the world of online gambling – I felt every spin of the wheel; the highs of adrenaline followed by stomach churning nausea’ Nikki Smith, author of All In Her Head
n‘Tense beyond belief but impossible to put down. Dark, absorbing and brilliantly terrifying’ Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City
n‘Love, chance and betrayal all take a seat at the table in Rachel Edward’s compelling novel, Lucky. Delivered in Rachel’s exciting and original style is a winning storyline, crafted with excellence, packed with suspense and walk-off-the-page characters you’ll think about long after turning the last page’ Olivia Kiernan, author of Play Dead for Me
n‘Timely, absorbing, unsettling and unflinching, with a dark, knowing wit. I’ve been thinking about it for days and I’ll be recommending it to everyone’ Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies
nUser Reviews
It sometimes puzzles me as to why a book is given a certain title...not this one. A perfect title. Although the protagonist is about the farthest away from lucky that you can get.
Quite a complex book and a couple of times I had to re-read what I had just read.
This is unlike anything that I have read before and I think this is why I quite enjoyed it. I certainly gasped out loud on more than one occasion, due to decisions made by protagonist. This just shows how easy it is to get on that slippery slope of gambling addiction. Something I hadn't really thought about before, as it thankfully has never touched mine or my family's lives... and hopefully never will.
Sometimes there was a bit of repetition that I felt unnecessary and in my opinion, the book didn't need to be as lengthy.
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