The Whispers by Author Heidi Perks
Publisher: Arrow Publishing
Pages: 399
Anna Robinson hasn’t been seen since she went on a night out with her four closest friends.
She has a loving husband and a son she adores. Surely she wouldn’t abandon them and her perfect life.
But what has happened to her?
At the school gates, it’s not long before the rumours start.
Anna’s oldest friend Grace is beside herself with worry – desperately searching for answers and certain that someone is hiding the truth.
With each day that passes, Anna’s life is under increasing threat. And as the pressure mounts, it won’t be long before something cracks…
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I found The Whispers to be one of Heidi Perks’ best novels yet. It was difficult to pause while reading and go about life... it was fascinating to see the clique in action. It’s hard to get invested in a story when you don’t like the characters very well. Anna, Nancy, Rachel and Caitlyn are a clique of four and they aren’t extremely likeable. This is a story of the secret's women keep from each other from even themselves. You see them all start to fall apart as one of them is incredibly manipulative. She’s jealous. These are all toxic relationships... we get to see I all collapse down in a ring of jealousy and obsessive, secretive women!
Heidi Perks is an amazing author. She developed the characters so flawlessly. I found myself mumbling and being irked right along and at most of the women. I’m not one that likes pettiness and secretiveness but this book has it in spades. Even though it isn’t my favorite to read about petty women or characters in general, I found this one to be more thrilling than I expected. The depth of the character development was amazing. You really feel disdain or sympathy for them. Perks excels in building up the story until you can’t set it down.
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About the Author
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Heidi Perks
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I’ve always loved reading and writing and for as long as I can remember I’ve been making up stories, poems and even magazines that I’d sell to unsuspecting family members for 20p. I fell in love with Enid Blyton and books like The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, and somehow managed to get through GCSE’s and A-levels while spending most of the lessons staring out of the window and creating other worlds in my head.
In 1997 I graduated from university and moved up to London to begin a career in marketing. But after three years I moved back down to the south coast and, drawn back to the sea, eventually to my home town of Bournemouth where I still now live with my husband and two children.
After fifteen years of marketing and thrown into the new world of motherhood I decided to make some changes to my life. I left my job in 2012 to look after my family and finally took pen to paper to start writing a novel I’d been thinking about since a holiday six months earlier.
The following year I was accepted onto the inaugural Curtis Brown Creative online Novel Writing Course, which fuelled my desire to become an author even more, and I began writing Beneath The Surface. This was published by Red Door in March 2016.
By then I was already deep in the throes of Now You See Her. I met the amazing Nelle Andrew from PFD who offered me representation and after a year we had two incredible pre-empts for the book from Emily Griffin at Century and Marla Daniels at Simon and Schuster in the US.
I am now writing my next book, which will be released in the UK in July 2019.
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