‘The Perfect Life’ by Susanna Beard is a psychological thriller that explores revenge, jealousy, truth and trust for a few examples. A brand new author for me, I picked this up and just expected the unexpected! Definitely a story that keeps you on your toes and an author whose work I need to look for.
Heather buys a lottery ticket for the first time and ends up the winner of a rollover jackpot! 29 million! Heather and her husband James don’t want the money to change them, or want publicity, they want to stay under the radar. That works until one of their sons talk about it. They decide to take themselves, James’s sister and her family, Heathers best friend and their close neighbours on holiday to celebrate, all expenses paid, a new beginning. Thus new beginning turns to a nightmare when one of their sons disappears. Is one of the people close to them the culprit? Heather and James have no clue who to trust and anyone could be a suspect. The fact that money is the root of all evil is prevalent here for sure.
I found this a really easy book to get into and was grabbed from the first paragraph. The struggle of Heather and James with their massive lottery win is a realistic one and the realisation that their life is never going to be the same with all this money. They don’t realise the other things that are in store, the jealousy that money breeds and the expectations of people.
The twists and turns within the story kept me reading until I turned the last page and I really didn’t see that ending coming up! A fantastically well written book I can highly recommend.
Thank you to Joffe Books for the copy of the book to write my review today.
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