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Worst Idea Ever

What’s a little white lie between best friends?

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Worst Idea Ever

By: Jane Fallon
Narrated by: Luisa Bradshaw-White, Kristin Atherton
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T
he razor-sharp new novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of Queen Bee and Faking Friends.

Best friends tell each other everything.

Or do they?


Georgia and Lydia are so close they're practically sisters.

So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her - but she also understands Lydia's not the kind to accept a handout.

Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer.

But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn't know her quite as well as she thought.

Georgia knows she should reveal herself, but she's fascinated by this insight into her friend's true feelings.

Especially when Lydia starts talking about her.

Until Lydia reveals a secret that could not only end their friendship but also blow up Georgia's marriage.

Georgia's in too deep.

But what can she save?

Her marriage, her friendship - or just herself?


Praise for Jane Fallon:

'The queen of the revenge novel' Heat

'She always delivers a fabaliss read' Marian Keyes

'Compelling, edgy, beautifully written' Daily Mail

'Hugely compelling and unpredictable' Ruth Jones

'Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit' Sunday Mirror

'Brilliant, with completely unexpected twists' Gill Sims

'Intelligent, edgy and witty' Glamour

'Romcom with attitude' Mail on Sunday

© Jane Fallon 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Contemporary Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Comedy Funny Marriage
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Critic reviews

I loved Worst Idea Ever. Another Fallonesque treat, possibly my favourite so far. Full of heart, humour and humanity. Great characters and a riveting story from the start. She's so good at tapping into the best and the worst in us. Fabulous (Ruth Jones)
Worst Idea Ever is SO GOOD! I read it in one mad gulp (Marian Keyes)
We adore Jane Fallon's novels, and this witty page-turner could be her best yet
Brilliant, gripping . . . Emotionally intelligent and beautifully written
We love everything Jane Fallon writes and this might be her best yet!
Fallon's trademark warmth and humour is very much to the fore with this tale of friendship gone badly wrong
Takes us on a deep dive into the emotionally murky waters which exist between protagonists Lydia and Georgia . . . I adored it
Ingenious. Her eye for detail, compressed emotion and the absurdity that lurks beneath what people say to each other, is unerring. Worst. Idea. Ever. strengthens her claim to be one of our very finest comic novelists
Funny, insightful, sharp, wicked, brilliant - Jane Fallon at her very best (Milly Johnson)
Jane's talent lies in understanding human behaviour . . . Another winner. You won't regret it
All stars
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I loved everything about this book. So well thought out with the POVs.Narrator was excellent. This author just keeps getting better. My favourite book of the year so far.

Jane does it again.

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Loved the idea, guessed the twist and then felt a bit disappointed with the ending , I was expecting a bit more.
Otherwise a good well narrated listen.

Great idea, disappointing ending.

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I think I've read all her books. Loved almost all of them. Read several more than once, but this one was so confusing and unlikely. Although - it might persuade people 'not to believe' when well meaning (oh yeah...) friends tell them their partner is being unfaithful. Holding hands, a kiss or a cuddle, a shared meal, means absolutely nothing of any significance. Do we really still live in an age where a married person can NEVER have lunch with another person. Quite a lot of books seem to imply that we do. Really?

Not her best story - although I seriously rate her

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I enjoyed this book but I think I’d have much preferred reading it. The narrator was clearly much younger than the 45 year old she was supposed to be, and varied between sounding like an overexcited toddler and a petulant teenager. It ruined it for me really and although I enjoyed the story, I was thankful when it ended.

Let down by the narrator.

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I'm an eclectic reader and I love all kinds of literature. This book's purpose is supposed to be light, relevant and entertaining and it achieved that. I really enjoyed it and I'd definitely read Jane Fallon again. I don't want to insult this by saying it's a guilty pleasure but actually, it's not the weighty literary novel of the decade that normally gers shortlisted for the Booker prize but its funny, tragic with some heart. She writes well for this genre and she knows her audience. She also writes very good observational internal monologue and her characters are believable as I've seen them in real life when I was in my 20s and 30s working in music publishing and TV & Film production years ago. I'd call this style Domestic Melodrama.

Not the best in the World but light & entertaining

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