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The Girl Before
- Author
- JP Delaney
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 26 January 2017
- Run Time
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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THE ADDICTIVE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
THE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK
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Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price?
Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.
After moving in, she makes a shocking discovery about the previous tenant, Emma, and Jane starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before.
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'DAZZLING' - Lee Child
'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express
'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail
'INGENIOUS' - The New York Times
'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine
'ELEGANT' - Peter James
'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday
'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home
'ORIGINAL' - The Times
'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner
'CREEPY' - Heat
'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest
'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller
(P)2017 Random House Audio
Critics Review
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This is going to be the buzziest book of 2017 . . . This year The Girl Before will be that book
InStyle
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I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
Peter James
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A remarkably poised (debut) psychological thriller
The Sunday Times
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Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Lee Child
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The tension is built up subtly, leading to a devastating climax. A really clever thriller . . . [the film] will no doubt become the third big 'Girl' film
Daily Mail
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Riveting! One of the most compelling page-turners I've read in years. Twisty, turny, and with an ending not to be missed!
Lisa Gardner
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Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
Mail on Sunday
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Original and entertaining
The Times
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A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
Daily Express
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Original and brilliantly written
The Sun
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Get hooked on this hair-raiser about a woman who scores what seems like her dream home . . . until she finds out the mysterious fate of the previous tenant
Cosmopolitan
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Creepy . . . The buzz around this could not be fizzier
Heat
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A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
Glamour Magazine Online
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The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels
The Washington Post
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Constantly cranking up the suspense . . . a thoroughly satisfying read
Reader's Digest
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Enthralling
Woman and Home
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A guaranteed best-seller
Red Magazine
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The most intriguing plot idea I've seen in a good while
The Spectator
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Genuinely eerie . . . beautifully handled . . . the pages fly
USA Today
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Riveting . . . Writing with precision and grace, Delaney strips away the characters' secrets until the raw truth of each is revealed
Publishers Weekly
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A guaranteed best-seller
Prima
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A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . guaranteed to astonish
Booklist
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Superior psychological suspense . . . a cleverly constructed thriller
The Bookseller
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The plotting is exceptionally well thought-through
Irish Independent
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A crisp psychological thriller
Sainsbury's Magazine
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The Girl Before is more than worthy of the accolades . . . a complex triangle of twisted obsession . . . say goodbye to your nails
Boundless Magazine
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A great thriller and one that instantly hooks you in, in the very first line, and never lets you go . . . utterly compelling and very satisfying . . . A wonderful portrayal of psychological obsession at its creepy best
Peter James for Big Issue North
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An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
Sunday Times
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The Girl Before is a cat-and-mouse game that toys with our expectations and twists our sympathies. At times almost unbearably suspenseful, it keeps us guessing from the first page to the very last. Don't miss it
Joseph Finder
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Ingenious
The New York Times
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JP Delaney builds the suspense
Vanity Fair
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One of the best thrillers you'll read in 2017
New York Journal of Books
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A fast-paced page-turner
The Lady
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Horribly compelling
Evening Standard
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A tense psychological thriller, replete with twists and turns
Cosmopolitan
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Details
- Author
- JP Delaney
- Narrator
- Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen
- Duration
- 9 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 January 2017
- ISBN
- 9781786482686
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Synopsis
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIESTHE ADDICTIVE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND BESTSELLERTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTHTHE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK**********Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price?Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.After moving in, she makes a shocking discovery about the previous tenant, Emma, and Jane starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before.***********'DAZZLING' - Lee Child'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail'INGENIOUS' - The New York Times'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine'ELEGANT' - Peter James'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home'ORIGINAL' - The Times'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner'CREEPY' - Heat'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller(P)2017 Random House Audio
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