It’s very easy to become completely immersed in Jessie Burton’s world of ‘The Confession’ in which she focuses on two generations of women, connected through love, longing and lost opportunities. In the present-day Rose is searching for clues about her mother, Elise Morceau, a woman she has never known. When her father tells her of the link between Elise and Constance Holden, a much-respected novelist who has published nothing over the past thirty years, she is determined to find out more.
The listener is privy to far more information than Rose because, concurrently, Burton gives us the story of Elise and Connie in the early 80s. It’s very interesting to see how Connie in her mid-thirties has metamorphosed into the elderly Connie in her 70s. And yet aspects of her personality are still very much the same; she is generous and spiky, mendacious and kind. As the reader of this audio book, Hayley Atwell portrays well the voices of the old and young, female and male. If you are interested in family relationships, credible, complex characters and the female perspective, then you are likely to enjoy ‘The Confession’. Jessie Burton’s novel reminds us just how many choices need to be made as we navigate our place in the world and how they can be simultaneously very difficult and extraordinarily easy when involving those whom we love.
My thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio UK for a copy of this audiobook in exchange for a fair review.

I had recently heard the dramatization of the book on Radio a few days and ago and Pan Macmillan UK was kind enough to approve my request.

Burton's writing skills will leave you astonished. Confession is another master piece by Burton. I am so glad to have come across this incredible book after 'The Miniaturist' and 'The Muse'. This so sounding like historical fiction is one of the best thing I have heard in a while

The audiobook is a perfection. The narrator's voice is a absolute fit for the excellent story by Jessie

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This is a fabulous audiobook
I have read the actual book but love an audiobook for when I am baking or ironing or doing things in the kitchen. Makes a great change from just sticking the tv on in the background.

This is the third book by Jessie Burton I have read and it is definitely my favourite. This maybe because this one was on audio so it felt like the characters were talking to me. I enjoyed the dual timelines as I felt that they complimented each other. I don’t normally like ambiguous endings but it work for the types of characters within the story.