The Secret Within

Lucy Dawson

Jan 2021 · Bolinda · Narrated by Sarah Lambie and Philip Stevens

About this audiobook

Julia Blythe is starting again. After blowing the whistle on a fellow surgeon at her hospital, resulting in him being let go, she found herself illegally bullied from the job by her male colleagues who closed ranks against her. No longer willing to endure their campaign of smears and intimidation, she packs her family up and moves to Devon, to start a new life in a new hospital. To Nathan Sloan, who abuses his role as a surgeon as fully and freely as he can, she couldn’t be more perfect. After all, he reasons, you can’t blow the whistle on two separate hospitals without starting to look like you’re the problem. When Julia cannonballs into Nathan’s life, he finds that she very quickly manages to turn it upside down, and for one reason or another, he can’t get her out of his head. Pretty soon he would go to any lengths to control her, humiliate her, possess her. But Julia isn’t a woman who can be possessed, and when she discovers Nathan’s true nature, she becomes determined to expose him, no matter the cost. Nathan builds a web to snare her, and only one of them can emerge with their career, and their life, intact.

About the author

Lucy studied Psychology at Warwick University before becoming a children’s magazine editor. Her first bestselling book, His Other Lover, was published in 2008. Since then she has published four other novels and her work has been translated into numerous other languages. She lives in Exeter with her husband and children.

Sarah Lambie studied English at Cambridge University and went on to train as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She acts on stage, screen, radio and audio, and has appeared on stage as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Elizabeth in The King's Speech, Sarah in The Norman Conquests, Judy in Home I'm Darling and Vera in Stepping Out, as well as starring in dramas and reading Books of the Week for BBC Radio 4. Sarah also works as an Editor, commissioning, acquiring, editing and publishing books about theatre for Nick Hern Books.

Philip Stevens is an award winning actor, writer and director. He has performed in and directed film and theatre productions around the world. He is also an experienced audiobook narrator who has featured in such titles as Winter's Fire by Giles Kristian and The Adventures of Inspector Steine (series three) by Lynne Truss.