Vanity Dies Hard
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Narrated by:
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Eva Haddon
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By:
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Ruth Rendell
About this listen
Wealthy Alice Whittaker is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her. If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of it. Then the handsome Mr Fielding enters her life, ten years younger than Alice and they marry. But when Alice starts to feel sick -- a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake, her husband seems determined to keep her at home. Is he just being a doting husband who wants his wife to get better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta? Unwell though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril
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- W. King
- 29-11-22
Enjoyable.
An enjoyable book. Quite intriguing but I didn't guess the end at all. The narration was first class.
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- Patricia Walker
- 04-06-22
superb writing
Superbly written and, even though I guessed part of it quite early on, the perspective of the narrative was intriguing and I just had yo keep listening. Beautifully narrated too.
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- Christine
- 05-10-23
Enjoyed but the ending
Enjoyed the story and the narration but agree with the last couple of reviews regarding the ending abrupt and disappointing.
I thought there would be an unforeseeable twist to the ending.
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- Christine
- 20-06-22
Clear Twists
I thought I'd cracked this one from the first chapter but then, no and then again I thought I was right. Turned out I couldn't have been more wrong.
Clever. It plays on how the author knows we think, especially as a reader of her own genre.
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- Cundrie
- 24-04-23
Disappointing, so dull
Oddly banal, unmoving. Stock characters. I persisted, hoping for an interesting denouement, but found the ending unconvincing. A waste of time, unfortunately.
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- Mrs. P. J. P. Leishman
- 11-12-21
Not like Ruth Rendell
I found it a bit boring at times and struggled to finish it. Not like Ruth Rendell at all
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- Survivor
- 13-10-21
Rendall at her most gentle.
Rendall at her most gentle. A very satisfying listen, a quite a different side to her writing.
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- Tracey T
- 30-05-22
A good story.
The narrator is very talented and the story interesting with an ending I did not expect . An enjoyable listen all round.
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- Padmacandra
- 02-10-21
Excellent
Really enjoyed this on a long drive. Ruth Rendell's usual satisfying story weaving, evoking of a whole world & characters with depth, cleverlt playing with reader expectations. Any ever so slightly contrived aspects of the surprise ending were forgivable/ earned by the otherwise skillful building of the story. And nothing too nasty...
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- Penny B
- 03-08-23
Disappointed
Really not one of her best: contorted, unlikely plot, and overly gothic. But the reader was wonderful.
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