My Husband’s Wife

• Author: Alice Feeney
• Genre: Mystery
• Publication Date: January 20, 2026
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love, identity, and revenge.

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into, Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife.

One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel, and as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs.

My Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception, obsession, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.

It’s really hard for me to resist a good mystery, especially when written by someone known as the Queen of Twists. I have read one other book by Feeney, which was enjoyable but not a favorite, so I wanted to see how I felt about her other work. I went into this with some expectations and an open mind, and got a better understanding of her work.

I was given access to the audiobook version, which is narrated by a full cast. I’m a sucker for full cast audiobooks, since it feels more like a movie that I can visualize in my imagination. This story also had some background sound effects—waves, rapid footsteps and heavy breathing while a character is running, etc. This wasn’t something that I liked as much, and felt that the sounds in the background divided my attention and distracted me from the story. Each of the narrators did a fantastic job bringing the story to life and ensuring that they weren’t drowned out by the sound effects.

The storyline starts with Eden, an artist on the verge of her big break, going for a run on the morning of her gallery opening so that she can relax. But when she comes from her run, her key no longer works. Knocking, she discovers a woman who vaguely resembles Eden, claiming to be the real Eden. She insists on talking to her husband Harrison, who insists that he doesn’t know her and that this ‘new’ Eden is his real wife. It’s as if she went for a run and came back to an alternate universe. Except this story isn’t fantasy or sci-fi.

There are two timelines—one featuring a reclusive Londoner who inherits Spyglass from her grandmother and takes place six months earlier, and the other in the present and focuses on Eden and what she does. There are other characters involved in the main story, including Harrison and Sergeant Luke Carter, basically the police force for the small town in Cornwall where the story is set.

Spyglass, the house, is atmospheric and a bit creepy, TBR. It becomes almost a character in itself, and serves as the point where the two timeline converge. It’s described as enchanting but also a place where things aren’t always what they appear to be. 

Pacing wasn’t steady throughout the book. The early parts felt a little slow to me, and the end was so stuffed with fast-paced twists and turns that it felt like a bit of overkill. I wound up having to listen to the ending twice because of how many twists were jammed into the last part of the book. I love a twisty, turny, dark story, but the Queen of Twists might have gone a little overboard. I would have needed to take notes to be able to grasp everything that happened, and I really only note down my reactions to the book rather than having to track all the events and how they are interconnected. 

Overall, this was an intriguing read for me even if it wasn’t a favorite. I think that Feeney’s writing just doesn’t work for me because of her requirements for the reader to willingly suspend a LOT of disbelief, and her endings are jam-packed with plot twists that were really unrealistic. Many of the characters are unreliable narrators, and it’s really hard to determine if Eden is reliable or not. Additionally, there are quite a few unlikable characters in the story, making it easier to empathize with Eden, even though she’s no angel herself. By the end of the book, I had a really hard time with the amount of over-the-top plot twists, many of which didn’t feel as necessary. Ultimately, they didn’t do much for me than confuse me more, although I might have retained a better grip on the events if I read the print book. If you’re an Alice Feeney fan, this is peak Feeney, and you’ll most likely enjoy it. I’m in the minority of people who didn’t love this book, so take this review with a grain of salt.

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