Is there an audiobook of The Divorce?

Yes. The Divorce has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini, and Marin Ireland.

How long is the The Divorce audiobook?

The The Divorce audiobook runs 8 hr 1 min.

Is The Divorce on Kindle Unlimited?

Yes. The Divorce was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 7, 2026.

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Our score

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDMay 2026

PublisherPenguin Random House NZ

Genres

Fiction Thriller Suspense

Themes

Obsession and surveillanceIdentity and the sunk-cost selfThe cost of protecting a perfect imageVengeance and the woman scorned

The Divorce

Name: The Divorce
Price: 4.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Freida McFadden

Freida McFadden

Freida McFadden's The Divorce takes a woman scorned and lets her curdle, slowly, into something dangerous. Naomi loses the house, the husband, the whole storybook life she built. Then she skips grief entirely and starts watching the new girlfriend. A domestic thriller about obsession that keeps tightening the noose around its own narrator until quitting costs more than continuing.

The Review

Our take

The setup is almost cruel in how tidy it is: a woman who followed the love-story playbook to the letter and got thrown out anyway. McFadden opens on that humiliation and sits in it longer than you'd expect. The drained accounts. The lawyers the ex can afford and Naomi can't. The younger woman who has already moved into her life. What makes these early chapters work is that Naomi refuses to behave. She won't take the dingy apartment and the day job and the quiet dignity of starting over. She starts watching instead. That slide from grief to surveillance to something uglier is the engine of the book, and McFadden times it well, letting curiosity tip into fixation before Naomi herself seems to clock it.

The smartest move is locking us inside Naomi's head. You're stuck with her rationalizations, and that nearness pulls you in as an accomplice; you get the obsession even as it becomes indefensible. The chapters are short, and the scene breaks tend to cut off mid-decision, on the beat right before she does the thing she shouldn't. That's where the momentum lives. Once the new girlfriend turns out to be more than a punchline, the book opens into a sharper question of who's actually in danger and who's hunting whom. The dread comes less from gore than from a slow pileup of small lies and quiet surveillance: a parked car, a borrowed phone, a knock she really shouldn't answer.

The trap McFadden builds is moral as much as it's structural. Every step Naomi takes raises her stake in the outcome, so by the midpoint she can't walk away without admitting how far she's already gone, and that sunk cost is what makes the second half tense instead of merely busy. She follows the thread deeper into the dark than the breezy tone first lets on. The revenge fantasy doesn't stay a fantasy, and the book is sharper for refusing to hand Naomi a clean victim's halo. There's a real idea humming under the nastiness: what a woman will let herself become to protect a life that's already over.

Why you should read

Fans of McFadden's twisty first-person domestic thrillers
Readers who like an unreliable, morally messy narrator
Anyone drawn to obsession and revenge plots
Those wanting short chapters and fast momentum

What to expect

First-person voice that implicates the reader in the obsession
Short chapters that break on the worst decision
Plain, functional prose built for speed
Familiar genre architecture, executed cleanly

The prose, though, is functional to a fault. You're here for the plot machinery, not for sentences you'll underline. The architecture is familiar McFadden ground too: a narrator you can't fully trust, a structural turn that recolors everything before it. When the machinery clicks, it satisfies. When you can feel it assembling, the late reveals land as competent more than truly destabilizing, and a couple of characters seem to exist mainly to be moved into place by the twist rather than to live on the page. None of that dulls the core meanness. It's fast, it's mean, it's clear about what it wants from you, and it gets there without softening Naomi into someone easy to forgive.

Reviewed by Quinn · Updated June 26, 2026 · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.1/ 5

Excellent

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Is there an audiobook of The Divorce?: Yes. The Divorce has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini, and Marin Ireland.
Listen to The Divorce free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the The Divorce audiobook?: The The Divorce audiobook runs 8 hr 1 min.
Is The Divorce on Kindle Unlimited?: Yes. The Divorce was included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 7, 2026.
How much does The Divorce cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $4.99, Paperback $14.24, Hardcover $15.99. Prices as of August 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is The Divorce about?: The setup is almost cruel in how tidy it is: a woman who followed the love-story playbook to the letter and got thrown out anyway. McFadden opens on that humiliation and sits in it longer than you'd expect. The drained accounts. The lawyers the ex can afford and Naomi can't. The younger woman who…
Is The Divorce worth reading?: We scored The Divorce 4.1 out of 5. Freida McFadden's The Divorce takes a woman scorned and lets her curdle, slowly, into something dangerous. Naomi loses the house, the husband, the whole storybook life she built. Then she skips grief entirely and starts watching the new girlfriend. A domestic thriller about…