🎧 ARC Review: The Woman Next Door by Natasha Boydell

My review: 4⭐

Is the grass always greener on the other side of the garden fence?

The Woman Next Door follows 2 couples living next door to each other in London.
~ Sophie & Alan and Angie & Jack
6 kids between them and a broken fence help them form a bond. Soon they’re walking to school together, vacationing together, walking into each other’s houses without knocking…among other extra curricular activities.

It took me a bit to get accustomed to the narrator and I do wish it was 2 different narrators since the story is told by both Sophie and Angie’s perspective.
There was a bit of a twist I didn’t see coming, which always thrills me ~ however, I didn’t really get “thriller” vibes with this one.

I was very pleased with how the whole story wrapped up 10 years in the future.

TW: cheating

*I am tagging it as mystery/thriller for now because that is how it is promoted, but I don’t agree with that. I will update when I figure out where to put it*

*Thanks Netgalley, Dreamscape Media LLC and Natasha Boydell for the advance audiobook copy. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*

Book blurb: Release date ~ February 1, 2022

Two neighbours struggle with envy of each other’s lives—and as their friendship grows, their questions do too . . .

Sophie is a happily married mum of two who considers herself lucky—until her beautiful and highly successful new neighbour Angie moves in along with her charming husband and four talented children. The two women couldn’t be more different, but after a storm brings them together, an unlikely friendship develops. As their children grow closer, so does their bond.

But the alliance between the families is a wake-up call for both women. Angie’s success makes Sophie consider whether she really is as satisfied as she makes out. And Sophie’s uncomplicated marriage forces Angie to look at her own and accept that it’s not as perfect as it seems. Both women vow to change.

But their decisions may not lead where they expect, in this absorbing novel about risks and relationships by the author of The Missing Husband that explores whether the grass is always greener on the other side of the garden fence . . .