Awesome! Full of intrigue. I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next. Loved this author!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC!

Gabe and Pippa move into their dream house outside Melbourne with their two daughters. The house hides something sinister - The Spot. Its tall cliffs have become a popular spot for those wishing to end their lives. Gabe tries to talk a female from the ledge but failed and her death was ruled a suicide. She said she jumped because her husband was cheating, but it turns out that Gabe knew who she was. This is when Pippa starts to have questions. Secrets unravel as she begins to discover the truth.

I love Sally Hepworth, so I was thrilled to get an ARC for this. This twisty domestic suspense novel shows the good and bad sides of marriage and that nothing is ever as it seems. There were a lot of twists throughout - some I saw coming and some took me off guard. I enjoyed this ARC and would recommend it to other suspense lovers.

Absolutely fantastic! I was so invested in Gabe and Pippa's and Max and Amanda's stories and secrets.

Sally Hepworth continues to write complex, layered and intriguing characters whose stories I need to know. She is among the best and this book is among HER best. I could....not....put....it....down.

Thank you to the publisher for gifting me a copy. It is my pleasure to write an honest review,

My first ebook ever. Not sure why it took me so long, but I am glad I jumped in. Sally Hepworth only writes bingeable books and this one kept me flipping the pages.

I know a book is good when I think about it all day at work and am more excited to read at night than I am for dinner (I love food). I also love a book that has some aspects of real life marital issues. Marriage looks so different for every person so I find it wildly fascinating to read about marital problems- especially fictional ones that involve murder.

This was equal parts sad romance as it was a domestic thriller. Alternating POV, short chapters, and attention- grabbing, this book is guaranteed to keep your interest until the last page.

I am still thinking about the ending.

Gabe and Pippa live in a seaside cottage with two adorable little girls. Sounds like a dream, but all is not as it seems. Their house lies not far from a cliff. A cliff that is well known as a suicide spot. It is also well known that Gabe has saved many people from jumping. Over and over again he is somehow able to talk people down. Until now. Late one night they see a woman approach the cliff. Like usual Gabe goes out to meet her, but this time the unthinkable happens.

I really enjoyed the opening. It was intense and had an eerie quality but The Soulmate is a domestic suspense novel. There are no major twists and turns. Rather the story focuses on the characters and really delves into their strengths and weaknesses. Their mistakes and their goals. You follow along the ups and downs of two marriages and gain insights into their lives. There is always an unsettling feeling as you wait for something bad to happen, even as it's slowly revealed that plenty has already happened in these characters' lives.

The chapters are divided into before and after the incident and are clearly labeled. And we get two narrators, Pippa and Amanda, the woman at the cliff. I found myself enjoying Amanda's chapters more but all of the characters are generally unlikable and frustrating.

I was able to get a good sense of where the story was heading and I wasn't that excited for the journey. There was one small twist that I wasn't surprised by that tugged at my heartstrings a little. The Soulmate is rather dark and could have been a depressing read. However, the chapters are short and the writing style is easy and keeps you engaged even if you just want to yell at the characters.

3.5/5 stars

Another great book by Sally Hepworth! I love psychological thrillers and Sally is one of my favorite authors for it.

I loved all the twists in the story and I was surprised by all of them. Did not see them coming at all.

Highly recommend this book!

This was my third or fourth Sally Hepworth book and I've really enjoyed all of her books so far. In this book, Gabe and Pippa are married and live close to a cliff where people are known to commit suicide. One night, a woman from Gabe and Pippa's past commits suicide and there is a lot more under the surface than first appears. This book is told from alternating perspectives of Pippa and Amanda (before and after her death). I really enjoyed and will continue to read this author's books.

Another terrific 5🌟 book from Sally Hepworth. She continues to engage me with her interesting plots and great characters. Thank you NetGalley for sharing this with me. I recommend this book highly.

Sally Hepworth is my kind of writer. She describes this one as a murderous love story, so I guess that’s my genre now.

Gabe and Pippa are married and live by the cliff’s edge where many people come to contemplate suicide. A young woman leaps to her death in front of Gabe, but Pippa can’t seem to get out of her head that Gabe’s arms looked like they were reaching for her. it is revealed that the woman is Gabe’s old boss’ wife.

This book is told from dual POVs with a before and after timeline. The twists keep coming and Hepworth kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. I didn’t want to put this one down. She also did an excellent job of describing and incorporating bipolar disorder into this book.

Did Amanda the boss wife jump? Why? How is Max involved? Is Pippa to blame?? Pick this up if you love a murderous love story with all the domestic thrill and make sure you have time to finish it because you won’t want to put it down


Also, I think there’s a small typo 63 percent in that says “while we thought we it wasn’t going to fly”

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.
So this one was an odd one. I know it has a lot of great reviews but I really struggled to get through it. It was a lot of back and forth and there wasn’t much of a mystery aspect to it. I felt like parts were drug out and other parts were rushed.
Just wasn’t for me.

(4.5/5.0) The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth is a dual timeline, dual perspective mystery that kept the pages turning. In it we meet two women, Pippa and Amanda, and we alternate between their narratives. Amanda has recently fallen to her death from a steep cliff in Pippa’s backyard known as The Drop.

But did she jump? Did Pippa’s husband, Gabe, push her? Those are the questions the book is anchored on. And my favorite aspect - Amanda’s story is being told from the afterlife, as she watches events unfold.

I really enjoyed the two-woman narration and POVs. There was a strange kinship between the two characters as they worked to unpack the stories of their husbands and it worked extremely well.

I’d recommend this to those who enjoy a mystery that unfolds with clues along the way and a resolved ending. It’s not a thriller mood, more of a somber puzzle you’re solving. Personally, the ending was not my favorite, but I thought the storytelling was effective.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the gifted and advanced copy of this novel – I really enjoyed reading it.

Content warnings: Mental illness, Self-harm, Suicide, Death, Infidelity

Interesting Tale Told In Unconventional Manner. I mean, come on, how often do you get a dual timeline tale with two women - both alive in the past, but one now dead and yet still telling her tale - where both women feature in both timelines? I've read a LOT of books over the past few years alone, and I can probably count on one hand - *maybe* both of them - the number of times I've come across a remotely similar dynamic. So read the book for that alone, as Hepworth makes it work quite well.

The rest of the tale, about both of these women's love for their husbands and the lengths they will go through to save and protect both their husbands and their marriages, is interesting enough to be readable, but for some reason it just didn't hit me as hard as Hepworth's prior works. There was never a real sense of "I *must* know what happens next!", though the ending was quite beautiful in and of itself, and yes, even if you're struggling with the book, you need to read it to get the full beauty of what happens there. Overall, as noted, an interesting tale unconventionally told. Recommended.

This book is great! Would definitely recommend. Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Thank you for this ARC! Absolutely loved this book - couldn't put it down.
Plot and twists kept me guessing and I really felt like I could imagine being there.

4 stars

Reading the Acknowledgements in the end I can say I am happy Sally H went with this idea than the one she initially had.

The book has an excellent start. A family (Gabe and Pippa Gerard with their kids) lives next to what is known as "The Drop", a spectacular cliff that offers amazing views, however also a place where people come to commit suicide. Gabe is well known to talk people off the ledge. He saved quite a few, until one day when one woman shows up and he is not able to save her. And Pippa, his wife, watching it from the kitchen window while also doing a few errands in the house, she sees something that is disturbing her. Did he try to save her....or the other way around?

The story dives deep and we discover there is a connection between the now dead woman and the family living there.

Sally H is a great writer. The chapters fly by and the story goes back and forth between present and past. We get to discover every person's life and we understand better everything that is happening.

Although this is mainly a mystery, the book explores a lot of topics. One of the main ones are marriage, love, connections, mental health, relationships.

If I could sum up this book in one word is sad. I wish there would have been a different ending, but maybe that's just me.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this great book!

This book had me hooked from the first few chapters! I actually think the first 1/3 of the book was my favorite part. The writing throughout this book was funny and actually made me laugh out loud sometimes and I always like that in a book. One of the only things that I didn’t like was that the two storylines/perspectives were very similar and I sometimes had a hard time distinguishing them. This was a well-crafted domestic thriller and I was debating between
4 and 5 stars but based on my other ratings I would say it’s 4 stars. I haven’t read any other Sally Hepworth books but I have 2 on my tbr cart and I can’t wait to get to them now!

Thank you to Netgalley, St. Martin’s Press and Sally Hepworth for this ARC ebook in exchange for an honest review. The Soulmate will be published April 2023.

Yes yes and yes! I devoured this book and found myself walking around the house with the book even while trying to do chores and/or cook dinner. Those are the types of books I love. The chapters ended leaving you wanting more. Sally Hepworth is an auto buy author for me and this one did not disappoint. Thanks netgalley for the early read!

As I’ve mentioned, I lost access to my netgalley, but did remember this book along with a couple others! So toad I did, as it was so spectacularly written! Beautiful, emotional, tense, and twisty! Sally Hepworth is able to put so much emotion into a twisty, tense, and even callous thriller! It’s most definitely a gift, one that needs to be shared with readers everywhere! So don’t delay, grab this book today! It’s sure to give you all the cravings a thriller lover will seek, but much, much, much more!

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First of all, thank you to NetGalley for gifting me this ARC of Sally Hepworth's newest novel!!
I love Hepworth and this is now officially my number 1 favorite of hers 😍
Pippa and Gabe live in their dream house....ocean views, room to roam, plenty of space for their daughters. Only catch is, it's right next to the famous cliff known for the jumpers that end their life there. One night a woman appears on the cliff, something seems off about this time, and it's not just the fact that this woman is now dead.
Multiple perspectives, unreliable narrator, family drama, and a mystery to unravel....I don't know how it could have been any better, honestly.
Make sure to check out this book when it gets published April 4th 2023 🤗

I am very quickly becoming a huge fan of Sally Hepworth. Her newest book “The Soulmate”, is an easy read combination of murder, romance and family dynamics. Each of her books has an unexpected twist, with very well developed characters. I look forward to her next novel, and Sally Hepworth has definitely become an author on my ‘must read’ list. Thank you NetGalley for my ARC copy.