Someone Else’s Shoes is available via Penguin Audio, 12hr 21min Further listeningįriends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing Their converging fates underscore both their differences – Sam struggles to make ends meet while Nisha has lived a gilded life – and their similarities as middle-aged women taken for granted by the men in their lives. The Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley is the narrator, who skilfully flits between the imperious and increasingly furious Nisha and the quietly downtrodden Sam. There’s a Sliding Doors feel to Jojo Moyes’s engrossing, smartly plotted novel about two women from opposite sides of the tracks whose lives become accidentally intertwined. Carl, it transpires, has called time on their marriage, cancelled her bank cards and begun a romantic relationship with his assistant. When she arrives at her hotel for a lunch date with her husband, she finds two men at the door of her room who inform her she is not welcome. Nisha, meanwhile, declines to wear the tatty flats she finds in Sam’s bag, and leaves the gym in flip-flops and a robe. The shoes seem to have a hypnotising effect on clients and lead her to land a series of new contracts.
Sam, who works for a printing firm and who is the sole breadwinner in her family, has meetings straight after her gym visit and so has no choice but to wear Nisha’s red crocodile-skin Christian Louboutin heels. The bag, a genuine Marc Jacobs unlike Sam’s designer knock-off, belongs to Nisha, an American in London and pampered second wife of billionaire businessman Carl. I n Someone Else’s Shoes, Sam’s day takes an unexpected turn after she picks up the wrong bag in the changing room of her local gym.
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