How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue, performed by Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson, and Lisa Renee Pitts Chapters told from her perspective, narrated with claustrophobic vulnerability by Louise Brealey, alternate with the letters of an unknown psychopath, read with creepy, plummy portent by Kobna Holdbrick-Smith. As tremulous as any Gothic heroine, Mariana goes toe-to-toe with assorted scornful and seductive male authority figures while trying to get to the truth. There are assignations in graveyards and notorious parties and scads of classical references. The students-the eponymous maidens-cluster around a Byronic male classics professor, and our heroine, Mariana, worries that her beloved niece might also have come under his spell. This frankly preposterous tale of a widowed psychotherapist investigating a series of suspicious deaths among women students at Cambridge University is great, silly fun. Michaelides writes high-end thrillers set among the cultured elite and replete with women smothered by convention and domineering men. The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, performed by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith
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