Book Review - The Good Wife by Jacqui Rose - #HolidayReading Gambia

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Title: The Good Wife

Author: Jacqui Rose

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Macmillan

Publication Date: 2nd January 2025

Rating: 4 Stars

All Ava ever wanted was to be a good wife. But now, her father is taking her down a path more dangerous than she could have ever believed possible. Jacqui Rose's The Good Wife is a heart-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers.

Psychologist Ava Barclay wants to be a good wife. The wife that she knows her cop husband, Tony, deserves.

Ava keeps a lot of her clients’ secrets, but no-one, especially Tony, has any idea how many secrets of her own she is hiding. Fuelled by the emptiness left by her absent mother, who walked out when Ava was just a baby, she is on a path to self-destruction: drinking too much, making bad choices - including lying to her husband about her whereabouts - and numbing her pain with one-night stands.

When her father, Billy, is attacked and left for dead, Ava learns that her problems are about to get a lot worse. Tony finds out that her father isn’t who he has told everyone he is, he doesn’t exist. Ava must now head into the dark streets of Soho and into a seedy world of hate, fear and mistrust if she is to find the truth about her father, and her family.

What would you do if you discovered your father is not the man you thought he was, to the extent that you are no longer sure what his name actually is?

Well Ava decided to investigate and that takes her to a dark seedy world, where violence seems second nature to many of the characters she encounters. 

Plus there are multiple layers of secrets going back many years and you are never really sure who to trust. 

And I was definitely surprised by many of the revelations, as they finally came out. 

Not completely convinced there was a likeable character within the book, although some definitely had more redeeming features than others. 

A gritty, fairly compulsive story that I was intrigued by. 

Thank you to Macmillan and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.