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This Is What Happened
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary.
Something's happened.
A lot of things have happened.
If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go.
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero - if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
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- David
- 04-11-21
Different
Rather different from the Mick Herrons I’ve been used to; but a very well told story, superbly performed.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-08-22
slightly disappointed
Nothing like as good as the Slow Horses books but OK.
Well read. Rather annoying female character who I think i would have tried to kill myself !!
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- alan durward
- 07-09-18
Audible at its best
Excellent narration, full of drama and passion. Really helped bring a good story to life.
A great example of why I have become an audible convert!
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- Derek Platten
- 25-11-19
Sadly not in the Slough House bracket
Clever plot idea, with some brilliant and typical Heron descriptive prose, but lacked the razor wit which I love about his Jackson Lamb series.
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- Gill
- 02-04-24
Thrilling
This is another well-written and thrilling story from Mick Herron. if you like his work, you will like this. It is also beautifully read, subtlety engaging and emotive without going too far.
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- Jo
- 10-06-21
Comes together in the end
Love all the Slough House books, but this is quite a departure, much more gentle with beautifully observed characters. It's a slow burner, but builds tension to a great denouement. The narrator portrays the 3 protagonists really well.
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- Mrs. Stephanie C. Lay
- 19-02-24
A masterful tale of very broken people
I came to this from Slough House, via Zoe Boehm’s Oxford, and now hoovering up Mick’s standalone novels. This is very different, more of a close psychological portrait of deception, deceit and detective work, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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- Alan R
- 18-06-20
#xcellent
Well-written, characters that you can empathise with. The basic premise may be a little strained, but Mick Herron's writing more than compensates.
The narration is first class.
I see a number of reviews saying "not as good as Slow Horses".
Is this a Jackson Lamb story? No. Is it advertised as such? No.
You're comparing apples and oranges - or trying to...
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- Lovemykindle
- 14-07-18
It was OK, I suppose ...
Can't say much about this Audio book without giving away too much of the plot ... Very well written, as one would expect, very well read too ... Quite an interesting plot but not the sort of thing I would normally have chosen to read, the blurb is rather misleading ... The story relied a bit too much on coincidence, I thought, and sort of fizzled out eventually - I expected a much more exciting ending ... Would probably make a good TV drama with some added jeopardy and tension ...
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- White rose
- 13-08-18
This is what we're used to
I'm a great fan of Mick Herron's writing. Any book by him is worth 5 stars and this one is no exception. Imogen Church has just the right voice to tell Maggie's story. I loved it!
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