This was a fantastic thriller that was not-so-quietly unsettling. It pulls the rug out from under your feet within minutes of starting reading and had me hooked instantly.
My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeley publishes today. Buy it below!
Eden Fox has recently moved from London into a new home, Spyglass in a village on the coast with her husband. Before her first art exhibition, she goes out for a run, only to find that her key doesn’t work in the door when she returns. Even stranger, a woman answers the door claiming to be Eden Fox…and her husband backs this up. Is she going crazy or is this all some huge plot?
At the same time, we’re introduced to Birdy who, 6 months ago, has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and inherits Spyglass from an estranged grandmother. When she arrives there, she finds a letter from a clinic predicting her grandmother’s date of death…correctly.
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This was so twisty! Just when you think you’ve got your head around it all, another thing comes along and slaps you in the face. Because I’ve read a few of Alice Feeney’s books before, I know that the reveals are going to be slightly crazy, so you start looking for the most farfetched answers and trying to search for clues in between the lines. Thanks to this, I spotted a couple, but not everything by any means – in fact far from it! I’ve said it before, but I love it when a book can pull the wool over my eyes even more than when I figure out all the twists, so this was a winner for me.
As with her other books, the characters are generally flawed in some way, and there’s always at least one that’s lying to you. All I can say is, listen to the first line of the book and use that to guide you! There’s also the storyline that feels slightly out of place at first, but once things start clicking into position it makes a lot more sense. And then, just when you think you’re done, there’s one final extra layer dropped right at the end, as this author often seems to do.
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The other early reviews seem to agree with me, this is going to be one of the big thrillers in 2026. If you like this sort of edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, your year will be off to a great start!
Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publishers for an ARC of this book.
