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Title: How to be a Good Wife
Author: Emma Chapman
Narrator: Fenella Woolgar
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-13
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
I know what my husband would say: that I have too much time on my hands; that I need to keep myself busy. That I need to take my medication. Empty nest syndrome, he tells his friends at the pub, his mother. He's always said I have a vivid imagination.
Marta and Hector have been married for a long time so long that she finds it difficult to remember her life before him. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife. But when Hector comes home with a secret, their ordered domestic life begins to unravel, and Marta begins to see things, or perhaps to remember them. In the shadows there is a blonde girl that only Marta can see. And she wants something .
Members Reviews:
Sadly a good idea but a dreary story
Two hours into this story I decided I didn't really care if Marta was mad or Hector was bad. There is clearly something odd going on but the setting is so dull and the characters are so unengaging that I didn't feel any sense of tension or desire to unravel the mystery.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
I wanted to listen to this book because of the reader, Fenella Woolgar who I think is utterly brilliant and because of the positive reviews. However, I soon found myself researching again, to see if anyone had found this book boring beyond belief. Half way through I was still un-engaged. I eventually just about managed to listen to the entire story with my my "Stoic hat" firmly planted on my head and as the closing credits were read I thought "Well that's a whole chunk of time I will never get back again!"
Is she crazy, or is he bad!
Would you listen to How to be a Good Wife again? Why?
I really enjoyed this book. It was very well paced and really engaging. The author has engineered this book perfectly, so that the reader is never quite sure if the main character is mad or is her husband bad.
What did you like best about this story?
The sense of suspense and intrigue that the author creates and the pace of the story. It unwinds slowly, but never becomes dull.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The scenes in which the main protagonist slowly emerges from the fugue of her own confusion.As readers we take this journey with her and want to be on her side, but there is always the seed of doubt about her sanity.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Definitely, but I savoured it over a few sittings.
Any additional comments?
Download this book and enjoy the journey!
A Real Struggle To Finish.
This is the first audio book I cannot recommend and will be returning for a refund.
Where do I start?
The storyline is weak but I kept on listening in hope it would get better. It didn't. It's so predictable that I found myself saying out loud exactly what Fenella was saying countless times. The ending took no imagination what so ever.
As for Fenella Woolgar's narration. I've come to the conclusion that she found this just as unexciting and uneventful as I did because there really was no life in her voice at all. It didn't rise or fall because there was no reason for it to I suppose. The few characters she had to portray were acceptably done. Just. They had no substance to them and she didn't try to bring them to life.
What other listeners saw in this book I truly do not know.
In conclusion I will not be buying anything by Emma Chapman nor listening to Fenella Woolgar again.
