🎧 Book Review: We All Keep Secrets by Sheryl Browne

3.5⭐
Genre ~ domestic thriller
Publication date ~ November 6, 2023
Page Count ~368 (p+ 66 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 9 hours 35 minutes
Narrator ~ Tamsin Kennard
POV ~ multiple 1st
Featuring ~ unreliable narrators, unlikable characters, toxic relationship, infidelity, gaslighting, baby death

My review:

Ellie is 21 and works at a store that Jake owns. He and the wife are in a bind and he asks if she can babysit one night, which turns into a full time nanny position. She’s hurting for money, so she jumps at the opportunity.

Jake’s wife, Megan, is not too thrilled with the new nanny and comes off as a bad parent and all around mean person. But is that just how Ellie is seeing her, or will we learn something different when it switches to Megan’s POV? Hmm…

Something I found funny ~ at the first meeting Megan tells Ellie not to touch her stuff and she will know if she did. Well, Ellie decides to wash her hair. Umm, who washes their hair in someone else’s home that you’re supposed to be babysitting in? Like she won’t know when you just hang the wet towel. Maybe I could see it if the baby threw up on her, but nope she just had greasy hair.

There is a bit of repetition with the multiple POV’s. And too much with Ellie hinting to us about something over and over in her past and taking ages to tell us. Overall, I enjoyed this one well enough, and I liked the twist, but hated the ending.

Narration notes:
This is my 3rd book in a row that Tamsin narrated. I do feel her voice was a little older sounding for this character. And it was going along fine until we get Jake’s 1st person POV and then Megan’s 1st POV and she didn’t alter her voice at all.

*Thanks to the author, Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

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Book blurb:

I look into baby Fern’s crib, and my heart pounds. I’m her nanny, I was supposed to keep her safe. I hear the police downstairs, and the next words I hear make my legs buckle underneath me. ‘It was the nanny. She’s guilty’.

When I first walked into Jake and Megan’s immaculate home, I felt totally at ease. Sitting in the crisp white living room, they held hands and talked lovingly about their baby girl, Fern.

As the weeks passed, I began to think I’d made a mistake in taking the job. Jake was overly friendly from the start, watching my every move and always offering to drop me home, even though it was out of his way. And Megan seemed to take pleasure in telling me off in front of her husband, blaming me for things I hadn’t done.

The first time I heard the Haringtons arguing behind the door to their bedroom, I heard my name mentioned, and then they went silent. I should have left right there and then.

Now, as I stand accused of something terrible, my whole past is revealed and the Haringtons admit to knowing every detail about why I was sacked from my last job. We all have secrets, but little do they realise, I know theirs too…

With twist after twist, this is perfect for fans of The Housemaid, The Perfect Marriage and The Girl on the Train. A gripping thriller you don’t want to miss!

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