The Change
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4.2 • 87 Ratings
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
"Miller triumphs...THE CHANGE is that rare treat: a suspenseful story with great pacing, memorable characters, and an engaging voice. Fantastic in every way, this fierce anthem against misogyny is a smash."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp feminist revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…
After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities.
On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis.
Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power.
Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands…
Customer Reviews
Excellent, But…
I liked this book and the narration is excellent. The three women are wonderful characters (why aren’t there more like them???), and the writing is great. The dead girl stuff was really hard to get through, however, and there was SO MUCH OF IT. I wish the author’s editor had been a little more discerning, because it could have been pared down by 1/3 and not lost its meaning and poignancy. Perhaps there is such violence in media these days that this is relatively small potatoes, but as someone who does not read violent books as a rule, it was rough going. Yet, the gems within the book kept me listening to the end. More Harriet, all the time, everywhere, please.
Loved it
The power and strength of women working together!
Could not stop listening
This book was amazing and empowering. The narrator did an awesome job of portraying the many characters of the book. I loved every second of it! I’m honestly sad that it’s over.