Dirty Laundry: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A twisty tale of murder and love gone wrong, rife with bone-chilling revelations . . . This is a riveting debut, and Disha Bose is a writer to watch.”—Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Mother May I
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, CrimeReads
She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it.
Ciara Dunphy has it all—a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success—a picture-perfect life is easy money on Instagram. But behind the filters, reality is less polished.
Enter Mishti Guha: Ciara’s best friend. Ciara welcomed Mishti into her inner circle for being . . . unlike the other mothers in the group. Discontent in a marriage arranged for her by her parents back in Calcutta, Mishti now raises her young daughter in a country that is too cold, among children who look nothing like her. She wants what Ciara has—the ease with which she moves through the world—and, in that sense, Mishti might be exactly like the other mothers.
And there’s earth mother Lauren Doyle: born, bred, and the butt of jokes in their village. With her disheveled partner and children who run naked in the yard, they’re mostly a happy lot, though ostracized for being the singular dysfunction in Ciara’s immaculate world. When Lauren finds an unlikely ally in Mishti, she decides that her days of ridicule are over.
Then Ciara is found murdered in her own pristine home, and the house of cards she’d worked so hard to build comes crumbling down. Everyone seems to have something to gain from Ciara’s death, so if they don’t want the blame, it may be the perfect time to air their enemies’ dirty laundry.
In this dazzling debut novel, Disha Bose revolutionizes age-old ideas of love and deceit. What ensues is the delicious unspooling of a group of women desperate to preserve themselves.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
There’s enough deceit, danger, and small-town intrigue in this domestic thriller to fill many seasons of a bingeable TV series. It all goes down in a little Irish village where the queen bee is the glamorous and seemingly perfect Ciara Dunphy…who meets a grim end. First-time author Disha Bose peels back the onion layer by layer, cluing us in to why everyone from Ciara’s best friend, Mishti, to her archenemy, Lauren, might want her gone. The story’s multiple points of view and frequent jumps back and forth through time heighten the intrigue and suspense. With gifted narration from Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, Dirty Laundry is like an Irish Desperate Housewives reboot, bringing together the best of a soap opera and a murder mystery.
Customer Reviews
Horrible characters
Immature and predictable
Dirty Laundry
Less than 1 star. Negative, bickering, whining and complaining. Not a single joyful or inspiring word. I wanted to stop very early on but kept sticking with it…hoping it would take a turn. I’ve stopped listening 25% through it.