Every time I read a story like The Housewife I feel like someone is telling my story via their own. This book kept me awake, kept me reading (I even missed my train station). It kept me thinking.
Simple enough title and premise: bored housewife, uninterested husband, perfect child and perfect house. But the perfection can be misleading. The secrets swept under the expensive rugs can be deadly. The humans can be cruel to unimaginable extent.
Read this is you are a housewife. Read this if you are a husband. And definitely read this if you are.... well, you will have to read it to figure it all out.
The author has done a great job with creating the suspense, the dreading of something bad happening. And when it was all revealed... the dread did not dissipate.
Five stars to the author for creating such characters that work together so well to tell this story.

This book did not life up to the hype for me. Not a bad story overall just couldn't get into it for some reason. Just ok, sorry. Thank you publisher and netgalley for this arc in exchange of an honest review. I do appreciate the opportunity.

I really enjoyed this intriguing and addictive story that left me truly baffled as to what was going on with Diane and her missing memories. I truly raced through this story because I didn't want to put it down. I look forward to reading more books by this author!

Addictive from start to finish, and impossible to put down. This book was twister than a halter skelter, and I was left feeling like I'd been through spin cycle by the end. Read it. Read it. Read it.

Hard to read, with a lot of repetitive dialogues, I am afraid to say that I only got halfway through this before giving up - which is very rare for me!

A compelling book. It kept my attention and I was always waiting for the next thing to happen.
A well written addictive book.

Buried memories and chance encounters abound in this page-turner. I was in suspense the whole way through.

This book felt like I was reading the same thing every chapter: Diane is tired, she sees someone stalking her, she hears voices, she does something stupid, she gets drunk, she can’t sleep....repeat! I eventually skipped to the end just to find out what happened because I couldn’t handle reading the same thing over and over. Not a good book; even the ending was anticlimactic.

I could not get into this book so I did not finish reading it. The characters were not fully filled out, and I really didn't care about any of them. What I did read was kind of predictable actually, in that Lifetime Television Movie for Women kind of way.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.* What a deliciously creepy novel about the evil people can do to those they claim to love. Diane seems to have it all - an adorable child, a loving husband, a comfortable home. However, something is not quite what it seems and Diane begins to realise that she can't trust anyone in her life. Diane begins to wonder if she can even trust herself as she starts to hear a mysterious baby crying in her house. She is determined, however, to discover just who is playing games with her and sets out to do some amateur sleuthing. A thoroughly enjoyable read that kept me captivated until the very end. This is the first of Keogh's novels that I have read and look forward to exploring some of her previous books.

Diane has a loving husband an adorable daughter and appears to have a happy content life but is actually recovering from a break down and is still missing parts of her memory.Soon Diane starts noticing strange things around her and and a mystery stalker that keeps showing up making Diane believe that she might be losing her mind.

The Housewife by Valerie Keogh is really good psychological fast addictive read which I enjoyed but felt the ending was a little rushed. Overall a fun entertaining read.

I would like to thank Bookouture & NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest and fair review.

This is a real page-turner of a book, I could not put it down! Be warned, don’t read this unless you have time to just devour it. Every time I had to stop reading it, it was at the back of my mind, as I tried to figure it out.

The plot is very tightly woven, with a pace that just builds and builds, leading to unbearable tension.

I really couldn’t figure out what was happening to Diane. Who could she trust? Was it all in her mind?

It’s a book to keep you totally gripped until the very last page. Completely compelling and addictive. This is one I’ll be recommending to anyone who likes a good psychological thriller. Compulsive reading.

With thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for the Arc, which I enjoyed reading.
This was a very clever psychological thriller with an excellent storyline and it isn’t until the end, that the reader founds out who is to blame for what has happened.
Highly recommended.

Cant say this book really grabbed me. Just couldnt kerp my interest. It just seemed flat. That said, others seem to really enjoy it, so I wouldnt not recommend.

This book had a mysterious vibe to it. It had you wondering if your suspicions were correct. It was somewhat repetive in areas. This book still kept my interest and had me wanting to know more.

The housewife was a much slower book to read. Even though I did enjoy it, i had a hard time staying focused in the novel.


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Exciting read and fast paced. Very easy to read and very enjoyable. Interesting and keeps your interest throughout

While there were some unexpected twists, the story felt shallow and underdeveloped. The premise also won't be anything new to fans of domestic suspense. It was a fast read, which is nice sometimes and had a satisfying ending. Just needed a little more to be a higher rating for me. Thank you to Bookouture for the ARC.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this arc.
Diane is just an ordinary housewife with a little girl. She recently had a breakdown, but is recovering well, or is she?? She has lost her short term memory leading up to the breakdown. But suddenly she is being followed by a strange woman and starts hearing a child crying in her home. Or is she imagining it all. Added to that her husband has become distant and is not the loving man she married. Just what is going on?? Who can she trust anymore?? Highly recommend it.

I really enjoyed this book!

I do enjoy books that delve into psychological trauma and could connect with Dianes frustrations and constant self doubt and questions. I love the slow unfolding of the story, trying to figure out who this woman stalker is.

The domestic nightmare of betrayal that ultimately ends with heartbreak. I felt Diannes compete devestation as her memory comes back and she realises who the the stalker is and what the awful thing that happened in the lounge was.

I do feel she could have been developed into a slightly more likeable character - I so wanted her to confront her husband, but also understand her frality probably stopped that. I think the reference to antidressants and alcohol etc all the time was hammered home a little too much - after all she would have been desperate to keep her daughter and I feel she wouldnt )or shouldn;t) have done anything to jeopardise this.

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of the book in return for an honest review.