The Harpy

Written by:
Megan Hunter
Narrated by:
Clare Corbett

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
21
Narrator
9
Release Date
November 2020
Duration
4 hours 19 minutes
Summary
Lucy works from home but devotes her life to the children, to their finely tuned routine, and to the house itself, which comforts her like an old, sly friend. But then a man calls one afternoon with a
shattering message: his wife has been having an affair with Lucy’s husband, Jake, and he wants her to know.
The revelation marks a turning point: Lucy and Jake decide to stay together but, in a special arrangement designed to even the score and save their marriage, she will hurt him three times. Jake will not
know when the hurt is coming, nor what form it will take.
As the couple submit to a delicate game of crime and punishment, Lucy herself begins to change, surrendering to a transformation of both mind and body from which there is no return.
Told in dazzling, musical prose, The Harpy is a dark, staggering fairy tale, at once mythical and otherworldly, and fiercely contemporary. It is a novel of love, marriage and its failures, of
power and revenge, of metamorphosis and renewal.
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Nautasha Hoyle

Interesting ending.

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Abbi Emens

With such a badass title, I was expecting our protagonist to not be a bland, 1-dimensional character. But, alas, she was a huge disappointment.

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Anonymous

An interesting listen but right as it feels like it is getting good, it takes an abrupt end.

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Monique

Book was okay. Last 30 minutes or so was kinda confusing. But the main character was crazy. I don’t think she was thinking clearly.

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Tammy Berrie

This is a different kind of fiction than I normally read (err....listen to). But I am always fascinated by human beings’ seemingly endless capacity to damage each other, so I gave it a try! I can't really identify with what it's like to be a mother - it always seemed so soul-sucking and tortuous to me - complicated and unending - I just never partook. So I think Lucy is maybe bored, or wistful for the road not taken? The agreement she strikes with her adulterous husband is fascinating. Lucy may have been teetering on the edge for a while by this time - maybe always wanting, in the back of her mind, to exact a bit of revenge for altering her path for the sake of house and home? If nothing else, it was an engrossing character study. The prose-like tempo the narrator captures is wonderful. As Lucy descends into...I don't know....madness (?), the narrator captures the imbalance and frenzy quite well.

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