I also enjoyed the audiobook narrated by Sarah Durham and David Wayman for an engaging performance for all voices. This book held my interest but I found it extremely predictable. The story centers on married couple Drew and Fern. Drew is a doctor who convinces Fern to move out of the city to a sleepy beach town, but it turns out he has an ulterior motive. Fern, however, has secrets of her own, and the story alternates between each of their POVs as they play a cat and mouse game with each other. This was an intense popcorn thriller that I couldn’t get enough of! So many secrets, so much deceit, and a plan for vengeance. This is a story told in two different POVs (first person) and dual timelines. We follow around Doctor Drew Devlin and his wife, Fern. Doctor Drew seems respectable, smart and charming, while Fern is a loving doctor’s wife with a perfect life. However, things aren’t ever as perfect as they seem. Drew and Fern are both very unlikable characters who cannot be trusted. That’s okay though, because it makes things that much more interesting.

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This book is told between two points of view. Fern and Drew have just moved to a small town in northern England from Manchester. Drew is a doctor, and he has convinced Fern that they should move to a small town so that he can work less and spend more time with her, or at least that’s the lie he tells his wife. The story is told from the points of view of both Fern and Drew, covering both the present and the couple's past in Manchester. There are so many quotes about revenge that it’s obviously something humans think about a lot. I will leave you with this one that I think fits this story : We've got another husband and wife story with secrets and betrayal and this one follows Fern & Drew.

At the conclusion, one may hope that all of the characters get their just desserts, although there is one who while seeming to escape, just might not have. Of course, Alice is unhappy when she discovers he has followed her there. The nerve to invade her space—appalled. So maybe Drew's plan was not the best idea...you think? But he is persistent.

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It's very interesting the way this story is presented. Right off the bat you are allowed to know things that are usually revealed much later in the story. But that's the thing, this is less a mystery than it is a confession or more accurately, a not so humble brag. There is a lot of telling because both Fern and her husband Drew (that's Doctor Drew to anyone in earshot) are so very proud of their manipulations and secrets. If they can't tell anyone else of their "accomplishments", they will at least tell us. THANK YOUs: A BIG Thank you to @netgalley and @bookouture for gifting me this ALC (Advanced Listening Copy)! I have enjoyed several of Daniel Hurst's books, but The Doctor's Wife blew me away. Readers are kept guessing with plenty of red herrings in this cunning story. I love a well-written thriller and Hurst delivers. From the city residing in Manchester, England now moving to a waterside home that overlooks Solway First, between England and Scotland. A quaint remote seaside village town, Arberness. The story is told from alternating POVs, Fern’s and Drew’s. This was an engrossing, fast read; I couldn’t put it down. You may hate some (or all!) of the characters, but you will enjoy this domestic thriller with its twists and turns. A very entertaining read!First off, I hated the female character—Fern. Boring, predictable and uninteresting. I don't know how to feel about this book. I didn't like it. On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.

However soon Drew will convince Fern to move to a small country village called Arberness. He tells Fern that he is so overwhelmed and exhausted working at his practice that he wants them to move to a small town where he will have fewer patients and problems to deal with. They will have so much more time “to spend together”, HA!!! I’d also like to add that the narrators of this audiobook, Sarah Durham and David Wayman, did a wonderful job bringing “The Doctor’s Wife” to life.I hate that Greg thought that Fern was capable of murder because she got upset once when she thought her husband was cheating. While the text messages between Drew and a former classmate were innocuous, Fern CLEARLY had gone reason to be suspicious that Drew might engage in extramarital affairs. But because Fern threatened to throw Drew’s phone against the wall makes her capable of murder? That old saying of a woman scorned certainly has its moments in this story. You know what they say about perfection.....that it's often an illusion, a play, a scene played out on the stage of life. It’s not a spoiler to say that I didn’t like either of the four main characters. Drew thinks he’s a great doctor but it soon becomes clear the only thing he likes about his work is the money. Fern is a typical spoiled and lazy woman who loves just spending Drew’s money and watch daytime tv – she has no ambition at all. The other two we do not get to know very well; she is ‘Drews lover’ and he is ‘her husband’ but I cannot picture them well. Unfortunately, I have watched Lifetime movies with more complexity than this book. Since I try to be optimistic, here are the things I liked about the book:

After finishing a heavy tome, with lots of characters, I wanted to read something not too complicated. The Doctor's Wife was exactly what I needed. I like Daniel Hursts' books because they follow the same pattern. We are introduced to the main characters (in this case, Drew Devlin and his wife Fern) before we are introduced to some other characters (in this case, Drews ex-lover and her husband) and then things get rolling. Being told from different viewpoints, the story unfolds quite fast and before we know it, it’s clear that not all characters are very reliable. On the contrary. I’ve been seeing author Daniel Hurst’s books making its way around social media these days, so you could just imagine my excitement when I received this ARC audiobook to one of his newest releases, “The Doctor’s Wife.” Drew has his secrets, and Fern has hers. How far will Fern go to keep her secrets? Never underestimate a woman. Fern is married to Drew Devlin, a well-respected family doctor. Their marriage is one of perfection….if looking from the outside in. But Drew has a secret that he thinks is safe, and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned when Fern discovers he’s been cheating in their marriage with another married woman named, Alice. Fern plots her revenge in more ways than one and the destruction one you won’t be able to turn away from!I loved the epilogue which suggests one part of this couple just might get what he or she (no spoiler!) deserves.