The Other Half cover art

The Other Half

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Other Half

By: Charlotte Vassell
Narrated by: Imogen Wilde, Michael Muyunda
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

'An incredible crime debut.' ERIN KELLY
'As sharp, witty and energetic as it is bitingly satirical.' JANICE HALLETT

The night before
Rupert's 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's - catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot.
The morning after
His girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally.

This investigation is going to be about Classics degrees and aristocrats, Instagram influencers and who knows who. Or is it whom? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn't sure. He's sharply dressed, smart, and as into self-improvement as Clemmie - but as he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxury, a wall of staggering wealth threatens to shut down his investigation before it's begun.

Can he see through the tangled set of relationships in which the other half live, and die, before the case is taken out of his hands?

Bitingly funny, full of twists, and all too close to reality, this is a stunning debut from your next favourite crime writer.

'Scintillating' HARRIET TYCE
'An incredibly accomplished debut. The writing is pin-sharp and skewers class and pretension with hilarious precision . . . Vassell is a unique and much-needed voice in crime fiction, and sure to be a new favourite for many!' CAILEAN STEED

©2023 Charlotte Vassell (P)2023 Faber & Faber Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime Exciting Funny Suspense

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Lodge cover art
Stranded cover art
The Red House cover art
False Charity cover art
A Bird in Winter cover art
The Fifth Guest cover art
A Killing in November cover art
Little Compton Mysteries: Boxed Set, Books 1-3 cover art
Silent Tide cover art
The Woman Downstairs cover art
The Russian Doll cover art
Innocent cover art
Aspire to Die cover art
Buried cover art
Someone You Know cover art
The Next Girl: Detective Gina Harte, Book 1 cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Ive listened to over 150 audible books and for the first time I had to increase the speed as it was driving me nuts. I think they have used some gizmo to take the readers breaths out and what happens is. there ..... is..... this ..... weird ........ pause..... between .... every. ..... sentence. Its like having a book read to you by the speaking clock.

Im not having a bash at the actors, I am sure they are great, but its either directed or edited in some odd way.

Stories good! its a bit preachy (rich white people are bad apparently).

Good thriller ruined by weird vocal delivery

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The male narrator was really quite bad. His phrasing and stress was all over the place, and he spoke far too quickly for someone who doesn’t enunciate well. His “posh” accents were cringey and were sometimes applied to the wrong character. And if you’re going to narrate a book with Classical references, please look up the pronunciation first.
The female narrator was fine, if not very convincing with male voices.
The story was ok, I just wish I’d read it rather than listened to it.

Decent story, shame about the male narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I got the gist of the story, I was impressed by my storyline writing skills which I had to make up for each time the male narrator said anything which was 80% of the book, just like all the other reviewers said / it’s hard to follow what he’s saying and in half of that I couldn’t even make out the words even after rewinding and turning up the volume and asking others if they knew what he was saying, he swallowed his words so I just gave up and made up my own plot .

I got the Gist

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a really good story with well-drawn characters. However the male narrator was terrible. Spoke too quickly and indistinctly

Good story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story was interesting up to a point, but I couldn’t even finish it due to not being able to hear the narration properly

Story hard to follow due to mumbling narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story was ok, even good at times but the characters were stereotypical and uninspiring. The two narrator’s spoke at such a different level and pace I had to change the speed and volume each time they swapped, not a great hardship just inconvenient if washing up or on my bike etc. spoiler alert, the ending is just a bit naf and far fetched. Overall sadly underwhelming.

Mediocre

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Couldn’t get into this at all but did finish it.
Unlikeable cast of characters & the plot was not that interesting.
However, the male narrator was awful & like other have said, I really struggled to make out what he was saying.
Would not recommend this

Struggled with this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Does nobody listen to an audio to make sure it sounds good? The male narrator was mumbling his lines to the point, I nearly gave up on it. Quite astonishing there is no quality control.

A so so story ruined by the male narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I am a few chapters into this book and enjoying this story but I've had to turn the volume up, and the speed down when the male is narrating. I am having to strain to catch what he's saying and it's taking the pleasure away from listening. I was wondering if it was just me, and have come to read the reviews, (which with hindsight I should've done first). It's not just me. Similar refrain from other people. It's a shame because I don't know whether I'll persist and I would like to know the outcome of the story.

Male narration poor

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is ambitious, intelligent, funny, angry writing and I look forward to the next in the series. Not 5 star yet but definitely on its way. I agree with the other reviewer who commented on the male reader letting the side down a bit - he didn’t differentiate between the voices sufficiently.

Really promising stuff

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews