Beautiful Ugly: A Novel

· Flatiron Books
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Her best book yet.”
Harlan Coben
The million-copy bestselling Queen of Twists Alice Feeney returns with a gripping and deliciously dark thriller about marriage. . .
. . . and revenge.

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life.

Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared.

A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible – a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t.
Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.

“Magnetic and jaw-dropping.” —Mary Kubica, bestselling author
"Unforgettable." —Chris Whitaker, bestselling author

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4.2
30 reviews
Sarah Lemler
September 2, 2025
I hate, hate, HATE it when authors write thrillers that shock readers with the endings, not because there is a twist, but because they don't give you all the information and rely on impossible plot changes instead of plot twists. Characters cannot be in two places at once, especially without a very good explanation for how it was accomplished, and the explanation this book gives is weak to non-existent and relies on you making assumptions that it itself disproved.
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Jerylyn Bohlender
July 29, 2025
Enjoyable read. I'd recommend. Creative ending. I listened via audible, which was helpful to differentiate between the characters.
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Marie Dessalines
January 29, 2025
All the action starts right at the beginning of the book, which is 👍
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About the author

Alice Feeney is the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ugly, Good Bad Girl, Daisy Darker, Rock Paper Scissors, His & Hers, I Know Who You Are, and Sometimes I Lie. Her novels have been translated into over thirty languages, and have been optioned for major screen adaptations. Alice was a BBC journalist for fifteen years, and now lives in the Devon countryside with her family.

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