The Dangerous Counterpart

The Dangerous Counterpart

Author: Claire Dunlevy Listening Length: 11h 12m
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Season Seven of Universe Below has been announced, and Eloise Silver, until now known mainly for an Australian soap opera and a run of ice-cream commercials, is promoted to the lead. Her sharpest credit remains a prime-time performance as the wife of a real-life mob boss. Estella Grant is no longer only that wife: afte...

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Estella had been balanced on a knife’s edge for a full two weeks before the end came rushing up to meet her. On waking that morning, she’d had no idea that the night she’d been preparing for since she was twelve years old had finally arrived.

It started with a phone call. Estella knew exactly who was on the other end of the line before she even looked at the screen.

The phone was reserved for just this purpose, carried around with her in every handbag or coat pocket, charged at her bedside night after night, waiting in silent stillness for so long that when the ringtone finally arrived, it erupted like a bomb.

“Bruna,” she said, standing upright in her living room, the hair on the back of her neck rising like hackles.