Ella Crawford is 26, lonely and so broke that she seduces strange men when she suspects they'll buy her dinner. Her fate changes the day she begins nannying for a rich and beautiful Upper East Side mother. Both women are just 26 - but unlike Ella, Lonnie has a doting husband and son, artistic talent and old family money. Ella is mesmerised by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage, but resentment grows too, alongside this dizzying attraction.

Crackling with sensuality and heart-quickening suspense, Madeline Stevens's searing debut novel explores themes of class, aspiration, female friendship, sexuality and obsession.

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8 hours and 48 minutes
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Madeleine Stevens
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Sarah Naughton
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9 April 2020
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English
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Audible Studios
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B086WPKVXD
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Listening Length	8 hours and 48 minutes
Author	Madeleine Stevens
Narrator	Sarah Naughton
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Audible.com.au Release Date	09 April 2020
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B086WPKVXD
Best Sellers Rank	139,819 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 4,933 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 9,064 in Suspense 24,647 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Zannie

Don’t bother

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 October 2020

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I struggled through it to try to work out what I was missing, but there are so many better books of this genre available it was frankly a waste of time. The plot is stretched so thinly it’s like watching someone make filo pastry, the characters are barely sketched out beyond their first introductions and the language is uncompelling and unimaginative. I wish I’d listened to the goodreads reviews instead of the amazon ones. I feel so robbed of reading time that I’ll never get back, it’s put me in touch with my own mortality. Absolutely nothing to recommend this book.

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Waste of money and time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2021

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This book starts out as a beautifully written piece of literary fiction, that had me questioning if Elle would become obsessive with her employer, and as it's marketed as a thriller, if she'd kill her or at least someone would die. Instead the final 100 pages are a load of drivel. She does drugs with the couple whose child she's paid to look after because the self-obsessed mother of the child is too immature to be bothered, and then she loses her job. The end. The entire novel is plotless and reading it is therefore pointless.

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Prose so eerie, it rings with suspense. Relationships ignite with toxicity and obsession. So good.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 August 2019

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It takes a lot for a book to pull me in enough to stay awake through the night reading until the end, but DEVOTION succeeded. The prose is so eerie, it rings with suspense and the promise of devastation; destruction; disaster. It doesn't disappoint.

I'll admit, it took a few pages for me to invest in the story, but as the events progress and "Elle" sinks into her role as Nanny in James and Lonnie's home, an intimacy woven into the narrative crosses the line into claustrophobic, unsettling, obsessive territory—and the compulsion to read more becomes unignorable. Stolen teeth, a running inventory of Lonnie's belongings, eavesdropping on secrets that hold the power to ruin a "perfect" family... Written with the conviction of someone who has witnessed the innards of inherited privilege—told with the borderline envy/desire of an outsider looking in—ignited with the fixation, the all-consuming hope that the unreachable might fall within reach—that same fixation turning toxic, lonely, pernicious as the novel draws its conclusion.

DEVOTION raises questions about maternal instinct, weaves an interesting narrative on the seductive power of femininity, and delivers a vivid, unflinching character study that is both provocative and unsettling to the very last word. An excellent debut novel and well worth the missed sleep. I can't wait to read more from the author!

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Loretta

Did not enjoy even though I read the entire book. Boring!

Reviewed in the United States on 8 October 2019

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The book seemed to be all over the place. Not an easy story to follow. I continued to read it thinking it would get better and flow more easily. Very disappointing read!

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Unsettling, unexpected.

Reviewed in the United States on 7 November 2019

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This book was nothing at all what I was expecting when I started, and yet I wolfed it down. The main character is somehow both bizarre and relatable. That is the draw of the book for me. The events of the story were utterly secondary (though intriguing).

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