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Ghosted

A Love Story

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Ghosted

By: Jenn Ashworth
Narrated by: Helen Duff
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A deeply affecting and unconventional love story, shot through with anger, black humour and grief.

One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband, Mark, vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at the local university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her tower-block flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports Mark as missing, the police are suspicious. Why did she take so long? Wasn't she worried?

It turns out there are many more mysteries in Laurie's account of events, though not just because she glosses over the facts. At the time, she couldn't explain much of her behaviour herself. But as she looks back on the ensuing wreckage - the friendships broken, the wild accusations she made, the one-night stand - she can see more clearly what lay behind it. And if it's not too late, she can see how she might repair the damage and, most of all, forgive herself.

©2021 Jenn Ashworth (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Dark Humour Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Comedy

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Critic reviews

"There are dark and alluring undercurrents to everything that Jenn Ashworth produces, and she has a brilliantly uncanny ability to unnerve at every turn. To me, her psychologically driven work ranks alongside such singular spiritual ancestors as Muriel Spark, Jean Rhys and Shirley Jackson." (Benjamin Myers, author of The Offing)

"A vivid, blackly funny and heartbreaking portrait of a marriage and the tiny and large hurts within it, how they wear at us and haunt us despite everything, but I found it beautifully hopeful too." (Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure)

"Ghosted is fresh, darkly funny and exceptionally moving.... Ashworth folds grief and anger and love into every line." (Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground)
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Emotional, beautiful.. Masterpiece in exploring grief, best book I've read in a while but still incredibly sad yet beautiful at the same time.. must read..

Love.. If that's the right word..

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It was almost a thriller with many twists and turns but more of an enigma. I felt it was a little rushed at the end but I enjoyed the puzzles. The narrator was very good indeed

A strange unnerving story

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Such a clever story and absolutely brilliant narration. Exploring human emotions and close relationships. Excellent

Gripping

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Real emotions
Fragments of mental health that are thought provoking & keeps you wanting to know the answers. Great fictional writing/ storyline.

Bingeworthy

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A fascinating book which I wanted to look away from at times but couldn't. It was absolutely worth the journey though.

Unusual and spellbinding

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I’m not one for trigger warnings, but feel this does need a TW as it deals with infant mortality. Had I known, I wouldn’t have bought this.

I kept waiting for this to redeem itself, but it didn’t stick the landing. Too many threads that then dwindled out to nothing. No likeable characters which made me lose interest. The wiring wasn’t good enough to carry the story, and the plot not thick enough to make up for it. Relentlessly miserable for 99% then all resolved in the space of five minutes.

Irredeemably Dour

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Kept waiting for this to be a thriller - but it just limped along. Waste of a credit

Not great

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