Is there an audiobook of An Anonymous Girl?

Yes. An Anonymous Girl has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Julia Whelan.

How long is the An Anonymous Girl audiobook?

The An Anonymous Girl audiobook runs 11 hr 40 min.

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Our score

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJanuary 2019

Genres

Fiction Thriller Psychology

Themes

Ethics, guilt, and moral testingMoney, class, and financial precarityObsession and psychological controlMarriage, jealousy, and betrayal

An Anonymous Girl

Name: An Anonymous Girl
Price: 11.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

Jessica Farris talks her way into someone else's slot in an NYU morality study because it pays five hundred dollars for a morning. Then the questions follow her out of the room. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen build a psychological thriller out of an ethics questionnaire and a psychiatrist who never raises her voice.

The Review

Our take

Jessica Farris needs five hundred dollars more than she needs to know what she is signing up for. She is twenty-eight, does makeup for other women's parties in New York, and wires money home to Pennsylvania every month for a sister whose accident she still counts as her fault. So when a client's phone shows a confirmation for a paid psychological study, Jess takes the slot. She sits in a room at NYU and types answers to questions no employer has any business asking. Could you lie without feeling guilty. Have you ever badly hurt someone you love. She answers honestly, which is the mistake.

The device that makes this book is the narration. Jess speaks in the first person, present tense, scrambling. Dr. Lydia Shields addresses her in the second person, in a register somewhere between clinical notes and a love letter. You arrive at 4:00. You have chosen the gray dress. Four hundred pages of being called you by someone who is watching you is unnerving in a way no amount of stalker plotting could match, and Hendricks and Pekkanen keep the temperature exactly low enough. Dr. Shields is never shrill. She pays generously, listens beautifully, and issues each new assignment as though it were a kindness.

The escalation is well managed. The study leaves the exam room, becomes errands, then becomes a test involving a man in a hotel bar, and the reader works out what is happening some way before Jess does, which is the point of the design. It does ask for latitude. A practicing psychiatrist running this particular experiment on this particular subject is not a premise that survives close inspection, and there is a stretch in the middle where the assignments repeat their shape and the plot marks time. The authors are betting that the voice carries it. Mostly the bet pays.

Why you should read

Psychological thrillers built on manipulation
Duelling narrators with competing accounts
Ethics experiments and morality-test premises
Antagonists who are never once loud

What to expect

Second-person narration from one viewpoint
Short chapters and escalating assignments
A premise that asks for some latitude
Reveals stacked into the last quarter

What holds up best is the money. Jess keeps saying yes because the checks are real and her rent is real, and the novel is clear-eyed about how cheaply a person in debt can be bought into something she can see is wrong. Dr. Shields understands this too and never has to mention it. The final quarter turns over faster than it strictly needs to, and one reveal lands harder than the rest. Setup honored, no cheating. The last exchange between these two women is the coldest thing in the book, and neither of them says anything that would sound unusual overheard from the next table.

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Our verdict

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of An Anonymous Girl?: Yes. An Anonymous Girl has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Barrie Kreinik and Julia Whelan.
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How long is the An Anonymous Girl audiobook?: The An Anonymous Girl audiobook runs 11 hr 40 min.
How much does An Anonymous Girl cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $11.99, Paperback $9.99, Hardcover $11.75. Prices as of August 26, 2026 at 3:46 AM EDT and may change.

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What is An Anonymous Girl about?: Jessica Farris needs five hundred dollars more than she needs to know what she is signing up for. She is twenty-eight, does makeup for other women's parties in New York, and wires money home to Pennsylvania every month for a sister whose accident she still counts as her fault. So when a client's…
Is An Anonymous Girl worth reading?: We scored An Anonymous Girl 4.4 out of 5. Jessica Farris talks her way into someone else's slot in an NYU morality study because it pays five hundred dollars for a morning. Then the questions follow her out of the room. Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen build a psychological thriller out of an ethics questionnaire and…