What impressed me early on was the voice, which was extraordinary, in the literary and the literal sense. Linda, like many other main characters with the “quirky” label (probably on the spectrum), has this annoying cluelessness despite the fact she seems astute sometimes. It accompanies me past plastic swings in an empty parks, and we pause together before a smear of traffic, waiting for the lights to change.

People have started to go missing in the neighbourhood and Linda will soon discover that some secrets can't stay buried forever. Linda’s job is to sort through all the donated handbags and clean out the sticky debris of daily living that accumulates in the little pockets and corners. My thanks to the author, Joanna Cannon, voice artist Lissa Berry, publisher HarperCollins UK Audio and NetGalley (UK) for the opportunity to listen to and review this wonderful title.Linda and Terry Hammett have recently moved to Cavendish Avenue from another house on their estate: this one isn’t so different, but it’s where Linda wants to live. But the loss of her father has never left Linda; she thinks about him constantly and how his death affected her small family. Linda, is involved in her own quest to track down Rebecca, who lived in the house before Linda and Terry bought it.

A Tidy Ending is a delectable, engrossing and darkly humorous tale, featuring as its unlikely heroine the middle-aged and deceptively introverted Linda. Linda's husband Terry isn't perfect - he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house, and spends most of his time in front of the tv.I thought I was going to enjoy this book as it sounded Kaye’s back but by page 60 I had enough a murder missing girls and the prime suspect is Terry who is married to Linda who hates her life, you see Terry always belittles her but she puts up with it why 🤦‍♂️I could not stand reading about Linda what a complainer she had her nose in the former owner Rebecca Finch life. It’s a book that is always at least two steps ahead—though not in the direction you suspect—and deliciously mixes, as only Joanna Cannon can, suburbia and the sinister. My receipt of a review copy from the publisher did not impact the expression of my honest opinions above. I may have been right about the twist, in the end, but the journey getting there was something I never could have imagined!

That and so many similarities to “The Maid” stopped this from being a five star book, but it was still an excellent story. A Little Luck is the story about the debilitating weight of lies, the messy line between bravery and cowardice, and the tragedies, big and small, that can ripple out from a single decisive event.

Meanwhile, emergency doctor Chris, having recently experienced the breakdown of his own relationship, finds himself unexpectedly attending the wakes of both patients and friends.

She presents as naïve, a bit simple, and is used to people underestimating her, doesn’t mind that, in fact. Just as she did with The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Cannon perfectly captures the claustrophobia of suburban life while reminding us how little we really know the people who live behind those lace curtains and neat hedges. It’s such a well written character driven book that has all the ingredients I like in a well executed novel. As the hours count down to their wedding, Piglet is torn between a growing appetite and the desire to follow the recipe, follow the rules. Following a troubled childhood, when Linda and her mother left their old life in Wales, she has tried to reinvent herself.This deliciously dark-ish, quirky story brilliantly comes together in a way that I never saw coming. Moreover, a character being unreliable unknowingly is very different from one acting unreliable deliberately. But that seems fairly normal—until he starts keeping odd hours at work, at around the same time young women start to go missing. There are newspapers lying around, but every time I pick one up it has holes in the pages where articles have been removed.