{"id":6071,"date":"2025-01-08T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/review-of-beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-wordy-witterings\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:00:25","slug":"review-of-beautiful-ugly-by-alice-feeney-wordy-witterings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=6071","title":{"rendered":"Review of \u2018Beautiful Ugly\u2019 by Alice Feeney \u2013 Wordy Witterings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can\u2019t sleep, and he can\u2019t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible \u2013 a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wives think their husbands will change but they don\u2019t.<br \/>Husbands think their wives won\u2019t change but they do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy Alice Feeney\u2019s writing, and I\u2019ve read all of her novels.  I think this one is now my favourite!  This twisty new novel is guaranteed to keep you guessing right until the end.<\/p>\n<p>Following his wife\u2019s mysterious disappearance, author Grady Green loses everything.  Unable to write, and desperate for solace, Grady takes up the offer taking refuge at a writer\u2019s cabin on a remote island.  But the island is strange and disorienting, and its inhabitants seem to have a whole range of secrets.<\/p>\n<p>There are a whole host of strange and unsettling characters encountered by Grady as he tries to claw back his sense of self.  Abby won\u2019t leave his dreams, and when he begins to see her everywhere, Grady starts to question how much of his visions are due to his continuing insomnia. <\/p>\n<p>With its grim beginning and the shift of setting to the mysterious island of Amberley, \u2018Beautiful Ugly\u2019 is much darker than Feeney\u2019s previous novels.  I loved it! <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/img_0123-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png\" data-orig-size=\"255,385\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0123-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png?w=199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png?w=255\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"255\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png?w=255\" class=\"wp-image-2095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png 255w, https:\/\/clairehennighan.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_0123-1.png?w=99 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018Beautiful Ugly\u2019 is published on 30th January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to NetGalley UK, Pan MacMillan and Alice Feeney for this ARC in return for my honest review. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. 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