The Doctor's Wife

Written by Fiona Sussman

Narrated by Toby Webster

Nothing in pottery teacher Stan Andino's regular and uneventful existence has prepared him for the moment he discovers his wife naked, except for a black apron, bleaching the lounge carpet with a sponge. A CT scan one week later explains it: Carmen has a brain tumour. As Stan and his teenage sons grapple with the diagnosis and frightening personality changes in their wife and mother, longstanding family friends Austin and Tibbie Lamb do everything possible to assist the Andinos during their time of crisis. Austin, their GP, oversees Carmen's medical care, while Tibbie picks up on the home front. Then Tibbie's body is discovered at the bottom of Browns Bay cliffs. DS Ramesh Bandara and his partner - astute, socially awkward DC Hilary Stark - are assigned to the case. And they will discover that Tibbie's demise was no accident . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aurora Audio Books
• Release date: Oct 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781399137256

Fiona Sussman

Former GP Fiona Sussman was born in South Africa and now lives in New Zealand. Her short story A Breath, A Bunk, A Land, A Sky was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her debut novel Shifting Colours was published by Allison & Busby in the UK and by Berkley in the US under the title, Another Woman’s Daughter. Her second novel, The Last Time We Spoke (Allison & Busby) was translated into Polish and won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in New Zealand. Addressed to Greta (Bateman Books 2020) won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Fiction. Her new novel, In Sickness and In Health, is a finalist for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel.