About The Book
Book: Beautiful Ugly
Author: Alice Feeney
Standalone or Series: Standalone
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date (UK): 30th January 2025
🔍Standout Read. Awarded to books I highly recommend.
My Review
Yes, I’m posting this live just after midnight as I’ve just finished it! Wow. I need someone to discuss this with, stat!
This is Alice Feeney’s seventh book, but the first I’ve read – and I’ve definitely been missing out!
Beautiful Ugly centres around writer Grady, whose wife disappeared a year ago under mysterious circumstances. Struggling with writer’s block, his agent offers him a lifeline: a free extended stay at a writer’s retreat cabin she inherited on the Isle of Amberley, off the Scottish Highlands.
The book features chapters from both Grady’s point of view and his wife Abby’s, before her disappearance. On the island, Grady is haunted by the image of Abby and the island setting adds an eerie atmosphere to the mystery.
This is a gripping thriller that kept me hooked throughout. The end in particular had a part that really made me smile! Genius.
Pictured here is the gorgeous signed, sprayed-edges indie bookshop copy I bought from Criminally Good Books in York. I also received a free eARC via NetGalley for review, thanks to Pan Macmillan.
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