Another fantastic book by Hepworth. Brilliant, multilayered story of marriage, mental illness and love. Pippa and Gabe live in a gorgeous coastal house overlooking a cliff. The cliff behind their home is a popular place for suicide, but Gabe with his gentle reasoning and good looks, is often able to change this. One day when they spot a woman close to the cliff Gabe tries to reason with her and she still jumps. Then it comes to light that Gabe knew the woman and has business dealings with her husband and her jump may not have been on purpose. Beautifully written, heartfelt story that is impossible to put down.

Pippa and Gabe seem to have an average live but when tragedy strikes it is revealed that their life is not what it seems. Overall this was an entertaining book. My only problem was that I didn’t connect with any of the characters. None of them were really that likeable for me and their motives were sometimes confusing.

This book has it all - a marriage with secrets, mental health issues, general mysteries built within the story and mysterious twists that you will not see coming.

Pippa and Gabe Gerard have been married for years, and while they are happy and content right now, you soon realize that some of the happiness may be forced and there is something simmering below the surface. They live in a dream home on the coast. Unfortunately there is a cliff right outside their home which seems to attract people who want to end their lives. Gabe has actually talked several people literally off the ledge, and saved their lives.

Amanda and Max are the other couple in this story. Their story is a little more mysterious, and you will learn their complete story in bits and pieces throughout the book. This story is told from several points of view and goes from past to present so that you will more fully understand the background. This was a twisty tale of betrayal, secrets and lies.

I enjoyed the book, but I have to confess I was expecting something a little more sinister. If you like a slow build, psychological drama, you will enjoy this one.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for this ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I am a big fan of Sally Hepworth’s novels and I think this is my favorite yet! It’s an entertaining popcorn thriller, but I also love the way it delves into living with mental illness and what we will do for the people we love.

The alternating POVs kept the pacing going and I loved the addition of the recently-departed’s POV. And I loved that nobody is really exactly what they seem at the beginning.

Please be advised this book contains multiple discussions of suicide.

Thank you to @netgalley and @stmartinspress for the advanced egalley!

Big thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

My first Sally Hepworth novel! Overall, I really enjoyed it. This sucked me in from the very first chapter. Quick, fast paced, thrilling. It is told from multiple timelines and POVs, one from beyond the grave, which I loved. The only POV I wish we had as well was Gabe…even if it was only a couple short chapters spread throughout. Despite that, I still loved hearing from Pippa and Amanda (my personal fave). Even though none of the chapters were dedicated to Max, I still feel like we got a very good sense of his POV through Amanda.

This is a great summer read, I highly recommend. 4 stars from me!

Thank you so much St. Martin Press for providing me an e-ARC in exchange of an honest review of The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth.

This was my first book by this author, and I am not excited to read more from her.

This book starts out with Gabe and Pippa in their cute cottage near "the cliff" and their 2 little girls. Gabe is a great guy; he was recently spotlighted for talking many people down from the cliff. You see, the cliff is a well-known spot for people to commit suicide. One night while in the kitchen, Pippa spots a woman at the cliff. She immediately phones the police while Gabe runs out to try to help her.

As Pippa watches from the kitchen window, it only takes a moment for her to take her eyes off the scene; when she looks back, the woman is gone. Gabe is in a compromising position, and she's not sure if he pushed the woman off the cliff or if she jumped. How well do you really know your soulmate?

What I loved about this book was the alternating POVs between Amanda and Pippa, but the past and the present. Seeing life from beyond the grave was a great addition. I don't think I've ever read a book with a viewpoint from the deceased. Amanda's POV allows the reader to watch everything unfold, almost in real time. I also loved the short chapters; they really kept me wanting to read more. I binged this book in less than 24 hours and found myself wanting to come back for more. Every time I thought I had something figured out, I soon found out I was wrong. I really enjoyed the ending. As someone who reads a lot of thrillers, there isn't much that surprises me, but this ending was a shocker. It was a bit underwhelming, but it really fit the book.

The author did a great job showing how mental illness not only affects the individual, but those around them. I found those parts to be very informative and they added value to the book. It was almost like getting inside of Gabe's head without having his POV directly in the story.

It was really fun trying to piece this mystery together. There wasn't really anything that I can pinpoint that I didn't not enjoy in this book. Other than making me want to immediately buy all of Sally Hepworth's books!

While reading this book I literally went through so many emotions. There was shock, gasping, some laughs, and I really felt bad for all those involved...all the way down to little Asha. Gabe and Pippa had a wonderful support system and having the familial ties was also a great addition. This was just such a great, well-rounded book. It really touched on so many topics.

I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. I think it would be a great book for those who do not read thrillers often as well as those who absolutely love thrillers.

Overall, I gave this book 5 stars out of 5. I can't wait to read more from this author.

After falling in love with much of Sally's writing before turned to thrillers and really enjoying both The Mother-In-Law as well as The Good Sister, I have really not enjoyed The Younger Wife or this one. This book had so much good quality build up and suspense to see exactly how all of the characters were going to fit together only to be completely underwhelmed in the end. It is so incredibly frustrating to see, especially from an author that I know has the ability to make greater work. I'm sorry but that's just my honest opinion.

The Soulmate – Sally Hepworth

Star rating – 3.75

Thank you NetGalley, Sally Hepworth and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

So, this book was unpredictable to say the least, there were lots of twists, tragic love stories and unique perspective on the classic mystery/thriller. The book had multiple POV with one of them being the person who died seeing the world before and after her death. I thought this was a neat perspective that you don’t see very often. I really enjoyed the writing style in this book, but I didn’t find this book to be the most exciting. I wasn’t on the edge of my seat the whole way through, but it was interesting enough that I wanted to keep reading. Overall, I enjoyed the story a lot, if you are looking for an easy read this one is for you.

(Trigger Warnings: Mental Health, Addictions and Suicide)

Synopsis:
Gabe and Pippa bought their dream home on a beautiful coastal town, but their house is located near the infamous drop. The drop is where many people come to end their lives. Time after time Gabe is able to talk people away from this terrible spot. Until one day he doesn’t save someone, and when Pippa discovers he knew the victim she starts to become suspicious of this event.

By now I’ve read a handful of Sally Hepworth books, and I while I wouldn’t say I’ve LOVED them, I’ve LIKED all of them enough that she’s an author that I’ll keep reading.

This one checked all the boxes for me:
✔️It was a quick read. The chapters were very short and I couldn’t stop turning the pages. I read the second half in a day, which for me is very fast.
✔️It was twisty and while I thought I was guessing what was going to happen, I never really knew.
✔️Like her other books, it was just very readable and entertaining. A great escape read.

I think I kept my expectations lower because I’d seen a variety of reviews, so that probably helped because overall it felt like a perfect weekend (last weekend) read! I was satisfied. And a major takeaway? Don’t buy a house near a cliff!

The Soulmate is my second book by Sally Hepworth and it is such a fun ride. The story alternates between characters as well as timelines (past and present) so it really keeps you on your toes. The chapters are very short and I found myself reading a lot more than I planned at a sitting as one more chapter quickly turned into five or six.

The suspense and pacing of the story kept me devouring page after page. The writing is compelling and the characters are very engaging. In fact, it is the relationships between the characters that are what is at the heart of The Soulmate. Essentially, it revolves around two couples - Gabe/Pippa and Max/Amanda. The secrets and lies were well constructed and I was most definitely surprised where the story went. The Soulmate will make for a great beach read this summer! Thank you to St. Martin’s Tess and NetGalley for an advance reader copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Sally Hepworth is a favorite author, so I was thrilled to receive an early copy of The Soulmate from Netgalley. I was drawn in immediately to this domestic suspense novel, and as usual, Hepworth's writing kept me hooked.

Pippa and Gabe seem like the picture-perfect couple. Gabe is handsome and dedicated to his two young daughters. Pippa is an attorney full-time while Gabe cares for the girls at home. The family lives in view of a well-known suicide location, and Gabe has attained local celebrity by managing to talk down several people from jumping from the cliff. One night, Pippa witnesses a woman jump, and Gabe was right there, seemingly unable to convince her to reconsider her actions. However, as the police investigate, Pippa realizes that they knew the woman. What if her husband is not the saint she thinks he is after all?

This book was full of twists, and I loved the dual perspectives between Pippa and Amanda. The whole book I wondered who was lying, and why. Gabe became extremely unlikable as the novel progressed, and I often wanted to shake some sense into Pippa. However, I liked how the drama unfolded and I raced through the pages to learn what really happened on that cliff. I thought the title of the book was very clever, as both main couples believed they married their soulmates, until realizing that they didn't really know their significant others as well as they thought.

A Cliff - Gabe and Pippa live in a house that overlooks a cliff
An Accident - and Gabe has actually thwarted quick a few attempts of people jumping off. Until one night, he doesn’t and he claims it was an accident.
Identity - Pippa then realizes that the identity of the jumper is familiar to her. Why did she jump? And was it truly an accident?

This book jumps between the past and present as well as both chapters from Pippa’s point of view, and Amanda’s the woman who jumped. It was kind of a slow burn but when you start to see how different perceptions can form into misconceptions, it is comes together eventually. It’s not totally shocking but it does have twists.

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher via Netgalley. This one was just okay for me. Just an average domestic thriller. I think I was expecting something different than what it was and that might have been part of the problem. I kept expecting something specific and more exciting to happen and it never did. There were a lot of twists—like every time you thought there couldn’t be another twist, there was another one. But all of the characters were pretty unlikeable and really not very interesting, and that made the twists not that interesting to me, either.

"Goes to show how dangerous it can be, thinking that you know someone." This quote stuck with me as I was reading "The Soulmate." The premise was intriguing: Pippa and Gabe live with their two girls in a home overlooking a cliffside that is known for being a suicide spot. Gabe has become a hero for talking numerous people out of jumping, but then a mysterious woman arrives and the course of their lives changes. As the story unfolds, you learn more about each of the main characters. There were many surprises I wasn't expecting and you realize that each character has secrets they are hiding that changed my perspective on how they were represented at the beginning. I was really looking forward to this new Sally Hepworth book, and I was not disappointed! Overall, it was an engaging book and I would recommend it to any fan of this author. It was not my favorite book of Sally Hepworth's, but it was an interesting read.

I will always read everything by this author because I have loved all of her books, and this one is no different. I was invested immediately and intrigued throughout the entire thing, which I finished in a day.

Pippa lives a charmed life – handsome husband, two beautiful little girls, a close relationship with her parents and sister, and a gorgeous cliffside home in a small town in Australia, overlooking the ocean. The only problem is that their cliffs are a notorious suicide spot for people set on ending their lives. Whenever this happens, her husband Gabe goes out to the cliffs to talk the distressed person out of it – and so far, he’s always been successful. Until one night he isn’t. Pippa finds out later that the woman who jumped is someone who Gabe knew – a fact he neglected to mention to anyone, including the police, including Pippa herself. And if he was hiding that secret... what else might he be hiding?

The story is told from Pippa’s point of view, but also from Amanda’s - the woman who died, telling her side of the story after her death. They both are unreliable narrators in a way, keeping their secrets close and letting bits of key information go slowly, in ways that totally reframe what you thought was happening in passages before. Pippa is especially unreliable in that she has this relentlessly rosy view of her husband which is slowly chipped away. The audience only gets the whole picture once she is able to see him clearly.

This is a solid, fast-paced thriller with plenty of twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. Definitely worth reading.

Representation: Lesbian characters, POC characters, mentally ill and neurodivergent characters

CW: suicide, infidelity, severe mental illness

This was a slow burn of a novel that I really enjoyed. I did not like Pippa’s d-bag of a husband and his crazy antics so that took away from the story at times. I did not understand why Pippa stayed with him! I liked that as the story went on more and more was I woven to show the dysfunction and secrets. The twists at the end were brilliant!

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for access to this ARC.

Sally Hepworth always knows how to spin a crazy domestic thriller and I am here for it! Gabe and Pippa's dream home is a amazing cottage situated on a cliff. The cliff is a terrible drop and a known suicide-watch-spot. Gabe has, in fact, talked 7 people off the cliff (literally). Until the one he doesn't save. Pippa discovers that Gabe knew the victim. So what actually happened? Did she fall or jump, or did Gabe push her? Would Gabe lie?
This novel is told in 2 different POVs, one being Pippa's and the other is Amanda Gerard's, the victim.

*Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this e-arc.*

I loved this one! For sure a 5 star for me. It has everything I want in a psychological thriller, which is my favorite genre: short chapters, multiple point of views, an ideal setting, twists and turns, and a heavy guessing game. I can't believe this was my first book by this author but I am immediately adding Sally to my auto-buy author list! Trigger warnings: bipolar disorder, depression, infidelity.

Unreliable narrators are typically my jam. I love trying to piece together what the truth and motivation is behind a character's actions. The Soulmate gave me all of the unreliable narrators and I have to admit that even I was in shock by some of the revelations. The time-jumping was a little confusing to me and factored in to my overall rating of the book. But overall, a solid thriller.

This one has lots of twisty turns and "I didn't see that coming!s" It was a fun ride.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a free review copy in exchange for an honest review.