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Beautiful Ugly: A Novel

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Her best book yet.”
Harlan Coben
The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
. . . and revenge.

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.

“Magnetic and jaw-dropping.” —Mary Kubica, bestselling author
"Unforgettable." —Chris Whitaker, bestselling author

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320 pages

Average rating: 7.18

584 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

JZbear
Mar 28, 2025
8/10 stars
Good keeps you reading till the end
ShortGirlReads
Mar 23, 2025
9/10 stars
This was such a great read! It definitely keeps you on your toes!
Mrshrl
Mar 19, 2025
5/10 stars
This was sooooo slow. And I hate unreliable narrators so the ending really irritated me.
Elena301
Mar 17, 2025
10/10 stars
I'm a huge fan of Alice, so thanks you so much for this ARC to netgalley and Pan Macmillan.

Beautiful ugly is a slow paced thriller that traps you since the beginning, and makes you fell the isolation of being in a small island without a way to communicate with the world. Besides, living with the islanders, who are sometimes a bit creepy and weird.

The story is good, the plot twists also are surprising but I guess some of them and that made a bit less interesting the discovery.

Also there's a hidden message, don't forget to look for it.!!
JL Reads
Mar 16, 2025
4/10 stars
Unlikeable characters and a slow-moving story made this less compelling than AF’s other books. While the ending was great, the journey felt drawn out, and I struggled to stay engaged. That said, I always enjoy a good unreliable narrator! Book #23 in 2025

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