The Water's Lovely cover art

The Water's Lovely

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

The Water's Lovely

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Siân Thomas
Try Premium Plus free

$16.45 per month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $13.99

Buy Now for $13.99

About this listen

The man who had died was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has disappeared. Ismay works in public relations, and Heather in catering.

They get on well. They always have. They never discuss the changes to the house, still less what happened that August day. But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other people. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.

©2006 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Crime Thrillers Mystery Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Suspense
All stars
Most relevant  
Entertaining and easy to listen to. The narrator is terrific.
I enjoyed it right up until the end when the author delivered a moralistic consequence to the one character in my opinion deserving of a happy ever after.

Disappointing ending

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Book is read by a great narrator, story is so drawn out and obvious. don't waste your time!

what a very drawn out story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book has fabulous character development and intriguing storyline that kept me listening long into the night.

Be prepared to want to listen without stopping

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.