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Narrated by:
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Amelia Sciandra
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Written by:
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Calla Henkel
About this listen
A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an deliriously wealthy family in this fantastically entertaining thriller from Calla Henkel, author of Other People’s Clothes.
Recently dumped and stuck with a mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the deliriously wealthy Naomi Duncan. The scrapbooks, a secret birthday gift for Naomi’s husband, Bryce, trace the Duncan’s 25-year marriage.
The conditions: Esther must include every piece of paper she’s been sent, must sign an NDA, and must only contact Naomi using the burner phone provided. Otherwise she’ll spoil the surprise. As Esther binges true-crime podcasts and works through the near-200 boxes of Duncan detritus, she finds herself infatuated with the gilded family—until, mid-project, Naomi dies suspiciously. When Esther becomes convinced the husband killed her, she uses the scrapbooks’ trove of information to insert herself into the Duncans’ lives to prove it. But the more Esther investigates, the further she is dragged back to the scorched earth of her past and the famous artist who paid her to disappear.
Laced with pitch-black humor and conspiratorial unease, Scrap is a razor-sharp examination of wealth and power, art and truth, of the line between justice and revenge—and who gets to cross it.
©2024 Calla Henkel (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedWhat listeners say about Scrap
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- L.D'anna
- 2024-09-16
Surprising
I liked how Calla Henkel's story kept me on my toes, as it smoothly moved from one act to the next while maintaining the element of surprise. The twists were unexpected but believable. The plot is well contrived and not simple, but easy to follow. Although the lead character is well-drawn, some of the others are a bit flat. Also there were times when I could feel the author teetering on the edge of bringing in some new subplot that felt risky but, in most cases, she stopped in time. Alas, narrator Amelia Sciandra, is not my favourite. She carried the nearly 10 hours of script adeptly but I found her voice tedious after a while. I'd have liked to hear the book read by multiple narrators just to mix it up. Scrap isn't the worst way to spend 10 hours of your time. Many of those hours will be quite enjoyable.
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