I need more than just action to keep me going. (Can I just say that I really enjoyed that section but having driven in Cornwall a fair bit, the thought of that kind of driving was genuinely hair raising!) So many thrillers I've read leave me feeling cheated on the inner story or emotional journey front. There the threads of family drama, mystery, suspense, local history and a threat against her life, ensure Jen is in the thick of it through dangerous climbs to car chases. An SOS from her estranged brother sends her back to her family home in Cornwall. A natural thrill seeker who has difficulty setting boundaries both for herself and with her friends and family, Jen is recovering - both from a terrible accident, from getting herself trapped in certain patterns of mind and from what she did to quiet those insidious little voices. Jen is something of an unreliable or at least inadequate narrator in her own life to start with, because she cannot entirely trust herself or her version of events.

This is a different sort of thriller, featuring a damaged but resilient MC who is complete in herself. Normally audio books - even great ones with excellent narrators (and Emma Powell is brilliant) take me a lot longer than physically reading, but I just had to know what happened. I basically consumed the audio book in two listenings because I couldn't put it down.

On the edge jane jesmond