A Tidy Ending: The latest dark comedy from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The audio version is narrated by Lissa Berry and includes a chat with the author that reveals the genesis of the novel and also of a particular incident in the story.

Soon after Clare is deserted by her husband, she meets new neighbour Louisa, who persuades her to help with a business venture, providing catering for funerals.I'd never really needed a hiding place before, because my life has never had anything in it worth hiding.

From keenly observed human traits and behaviours, Cannon crafts characters familiar to us all from everyday life: the gossipy, hygiene-obsessed mother, the ever-vigilant, self-appointed street monitor, and the lazy, unappreciative husband, among others. Joanna has been interviewed in The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Times, and Good Housekeeping magazine, and her writing has appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, and the Guardian, amongst others. The other two books ‘The Trouble With Goats and Sheep’ and ‘Three Things about Elsie’ were great reads and this one was another one at the same level.

Even when I disguised a lie in a wide avenue of truth, she could still manage to find it, because all she had to do was stare at me for long enough and out it would pop and wave at her” and “My mother is a surrogate for other people’s lives, stacking the empty shelves of her mind with nonsense” and “She said it kindly. Joanna Cannon is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, which has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK alone and has been published in 15 countries. None of the characters were likeable and while some of Linda’s thought processes were amusing, the story dragged.

She must find common ground with people, and this is through things like the television show Coronation Street and will use these talking points as the basis for her answers to police, as to what she was doing and when. She presents as naïve, a bit simple, and is used to people underestimating her, doesn’t mind that, in fact. Linda Hammet and her hapless husband, Terry, have recently moved to a housing estate, when a young woman is found strangled nearby. A Tidy Ending is a delectable, engrossing and darkly humorous tale, featuring as its unlikely heroine the middle-aged and deceptively introverted Linda. Terry isn’t perfect – he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house and spends most of his time in front of the TV.No, people will say, Linda isn’t in any of those—she was never very big on parties or No, I don’t think Linda was there that day. I'm not a fan of novels featuring characters like Linda; she is socially awkward, perhaps on the spectrum; she doesn't get inside jokes, sarcasm or pay attention to body language.