Beautiful Ugly
Grady Green is a once-bestselling novelist who has not written a word since his wife Abby vanished from her car on her ride home a year ago. His literary agent sends him to a cabin on a remote Scottish island to break the writer's block. Every door on the island is unlocked, the locals act like they were expecting him, and he keeps glimpsing a woman who looks exactly like his missing wife. The longer Grady stays, the harder it becomes to tell what is grief, what is paranoia, and what the island has been waiting to show him.
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A bestselling novelist whose wife disappeared a year ago retreats to a remote Scottish island and keeps seeing a woman who looks exactly like her in this 2025 atmospheric thriller.
Beautiful Ugly was written by Alice Feeney and published in 2025. It is a psychological thriller in the style of her earlier novels Sometimes I Lie, His & Hers, and Rock Paper Scissors.
No. Beautiful Ugly is a standalone psychological thriller. Alice Feeney has written several other standalone thrillers, all known for unreliable narrators and twist endings.
Beautiful Ugly is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Beautiful Ugly takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Beautiful Ugly is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
