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The Guilt Trip

Sandie jones.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 2021

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Spoiler Discussion and Plot Summary for the Guilt Trip

Have you read The Guilt Trip and need a run-down of the plot? Want to talk about spoilers? Need The Guilt Trip ending explained? Check out my Spoiler Discussion for the Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones .

Here’s the plan for my Spoiler Discussion for the Guilt Trip.

First I’ll do a quick run-down of the characters (as they all have a bunch of connections) and the plot. After that let’s talk spoilers and about that ending!

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Spoiler Discussion for The Guilt Trip: Main characters

The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones. Published on August 3, 2021 by Minotaur Books.

Rachel: in her early 40s, she’s been married to Jack since her 20s and they are the parents of a college-aged son. Rachel and her college friend Noah had been planning a gap year trip after graduation, but Rachel bailed on him since she’d just met Jack. Soon after that, she got pregnant, married Jack, and postponed her dreams of being a teacher

Jack: Rachel’s husband and Will’s brother. He works at a record company.

Paige: Rachel’s best friend. Married to Noah, a friend of Rachel’s from college. A lawyer (barrister?)

Noah: Rachel’s close friend since college.

Will: Jack’s younger brother. Plays golf with Noah. Runs a water sports company.

Ali: Will’s fiance. Used to work with Jack but changed jobs.

Plot Summary for The Guilt Trip

Rachel and her husband Jack are headed to the destination wedding of Jack’s younger brother to Ali, a woman Jack used to work with.  Their friends Paige and Noah are invited as well. The six of them are staying at a beautiful beachfront villa in Portugal.

Rachel notices that Ali seems to be annoying Jack recently, and Jack tells Noah, Paige and Rachel that he doesn’t trust Ali. He thinks Ali cheated on Will with a guy at work. Rachel thinks that Jack should have told his brother, but he disagrees.

DAY TWO: 

Paige, Will, Rachel and Noah go to the supermarket. On that trip, Paige mentions that she was hesitant to marry Noah because she thought he might be in love with Rachel. 

When they get back from the store, Rachel is convinced that Ali has been with Jack in their room. She finds a rhinestone on their floor that she is sure fell off Ali’s dress.

The men go surfing. As Rachel watches Noah surf, she remembers that she and Noah slept together the night before Noah left for the gap year trip they’d planned. Rachel decided to stay behind with Jack, who she’d just met.

The guys get caught in a big wave and Noah has to be dragged out of the water.

Paige confesses to Rachel that her marriage to Noah has been a little lackluster lately. She asks Rachel what she’d do if she found out Jack was cheating on her, and Rachel says she could not forgive him.

Paige asks Rachel if she think Ali is flirting with Jack.

As they are getting ready for the rehearsal dinner, Jack tells Rachel that her reaction to Noah’s accident got him suspicious about Rachel’s feeling for Noah.

Jack suggests that Noah is still in love with Rachel. Noah suggests that Jack had something to do with his accident. 

At the rehearsal dinner, Noah and Rachel are talking to a guest who asks to see a photo of Rachel’s son. When Rachel shows her, the woman says Rachel and Jack’s son Josh looks just like Noah.  Noah storms off and Rachel goes after him.

Noah asks Rachel if Josh could be his child. Rachel tells him the dates don’t add up, though she’s clearly not really sure. Rachel says they made their choices and have to move on, but Noah says he loves her. 

Rachel sees Ali watching her and Noah talk and worries that Ali overheard what they were saying .

Paige corners Rachel and says that she overhead Ali talking to someone about Rachel, asking them “does his wife know?” Paige says she and Jack were dancing and Ali came up and whispered something to him.

Noah apologizes to Rachel for his outburst the night before. Rachel tells Noah she’s afraid Ali heard them talking.Rachel goes to Ali and Will’s room to look for her. The room is empty so Rachel looks through Ali’s drawers and finds Jack’s watch.

Rachel finds Noah on the terrace. He’s got binoculars and shows her Paige talking to Ali on the beach. This makes Rachel extremely nervous that Ali heard Rachel and Noah talking about their fling twenty years ago.

Later, Rachel asks Paige what she and Ali were talking about earlier that morning. Paige denies talking to Ali, then claims that she confronted Ali about what she was up to.

Rachel wants to talk to Ali but Paige discourages her. 

Rachel and Jack are getting dressed for the wedding and he can’t find his watch. Rachel doesn’t tell him that she saw it in Ali’s room but offers to go look for it.

Jack leaves and she decides to look at the receipts in his wallet. She finds one for a silver heart from Tiffany & Co.

Ali texts Rachel for help with her dress and also asks Rachel to help her put on her silver Tiffany heart necklace.

The group heads to the wedding, at a remote cliffside restaurant located on a steep road.

After the service, Rachel meets an old friend of Ali’s. The friend talks about Ali’s mom’s accident, a car crash that left Ali’s mom in a wheelchair. The friend also reveals that Ali was once morbidly obese. Paige convinces the friend to show them old photos of Ali.

The wedding breakfast is on the terrace. During the toasts, Rachel runs to the restrooms. She’s upset that she didn’t stop the wedding, didn’t confront Jack and Ali. Paige follows her and tells her to just get through the rest of the wedding.

After the toasts, Jack heads out to smoke with Paige. Noah comes over and tells Rachel he wants Josh to take a paternity test. He says he if he is Josh’s father, he wouldn’t tell Josh or Paige, but he needs to know.

Ali leaves the restaurant, Jack follows her. Rachel goes after them. She finds them in a cave on the beach, arguing. Jack is threatening Ali.

Ali sees Rachel and tells Jack to confess to her, or she’ll do it for him .

Ali leaves and Jack says he kissed Ali one night when drunk and ever since that, she’s been stalking him. He got her fired by finding a fake job on her resume.Rachel asks Jack why he didn’t try to dissuade Will from marrying her, and he says he tried.

They return to the restaurant, where Rachel goes back to the ladies room. Ali and her friend are there. Ali apologizes to Rachel and it’s soon obvious that Jack didn’t tell Rachel the truth. Jack isn’t cheating with Ali. He’s cheating with Paige. Rachel accuses Ali of lying.

Rachel heads back out to the wedding and grabs the mike. She tells the group that Ali’s not who she seems. Jack grabs the mike away and Rachel tells Paige and Jack that Ali says they’re having an affair.

Rachel begins to believe that Ali is telling the truth. She and Noah start comparing notes. She notices Paige has a Tiffany heart bracelet.

Rachel talks to Ali who says she’s known about Paige and Jack for over a year and has been trying to get Jack to come clean. Ali found Jack’s watch after he and Paige had a liaison on the roof of the villa.

When Rachel and Ali join the group on the terrace to watch fireworks, they find out that someone shared the photo of fat Ali with the entire wedding.

Rachel suspects Paige and reflects the only reason she ended up with Jack because she was pregnant. Suddenly she sees a blinding light. It’s a car, coming right at Rachel and Ali at high speed. The car hits Rachel.

When she’s able to get up, Rachel sees that Jack is injured. Noah is all right. Ali is unconscious. Paige is missing .

In the Hospital After the Accident

Rachel wakes up in the hospital. The police want to know who she was with right before the accident. She says she was with Ali. That she didn’t know where Paige and Jack and Noah were, but she thinks Paige and Jack were outside.

Noah comes back and says Paige is dead. The police say her body was found in the car.

Rachel worries that Paige might have heard Rachel and Ali discussing the fact that Noah could be Rachel and Jack’s son’s father.

Rachel tells the police that Paige and Jack were having an affair. The police say that someone else may have been in the car with Paige.

Rachel drifts off and wakes up to hear Jack telling the police that he was going to leave Rachel for Paige . He claims he was on the terrace and hit by the car.

Jack suggests Ali was in the car, and that she was jealous because he slept with her before Paige. Jack lies to the police, saying that Rachel was furious and violent after she found out about the affairs.

The police tell Jack they found his watch in the car.

Spoiler Discussion for The Guilt Trip: What Was the Ending?

Months after the wedding.

Rachel is attending a service for Ali.

Ali’s mom tearfully tells Rachel that Ali thought exposing the affair was the right thing to do.

Ali’s mom Maria fills in what happened at the wedding. Maria overheard Paige tell Jack that they were finished. Jack was furious, saying if he couldn’t have Paige, no one could.

Everyone assumes Paige and Jack both got in the car and he was the one who drove into the crowd.

Surprise: the service is not a funeral, but Ali’s re-do of her wedding to Will.

Ali suffered a brain injury in the accident but is doing well.

Rachel has started her teacher training.

Rachel tells Ali that Jack IS their son’s biological father (I think she’s lying.) We also learn that Ali (and perhaps her mom) testified against Jack, who was convicted of manslaughter.

Ali’s mom says that the fact that Jack’s watch was found in the car also helped get him convicted.

The Guilt Trip: Epilogue and Last Minute Plot Twist

The person narrating the epilogue says that before the accident, they saw Rachel put Jack’s watch into Paige’s bag. We will get to that below:

Spoiler Discussion for The Guilt Trip

What did you think of this one? I thought the twists and turns were fun, and that the misdirection about Jack’s affair being with Paige, not Ali, worked well.

But there was SO MUCH dialogue. That got a little tedious for me.

My questions about The Guilt Trip:

Who do you think the narrator of the epilogue in the guilt trip was.

My initial guess was Ali . That’s because I think the narrator refers to the conversation between Ali, Maria, and Rachel.

The narrator says “I wanted Rachel to tell me what I already knew. But just as she was about to, I realized it wasn’t important.” That “just as she was about to” had to refer to the conversation at the second wedding, where Ali says there is no other way Jack’s watch got into the car.

Also in that conversation, Ali looks at Rachel “ so intently that it feels as if she can see straight through her. Perhaps she can .”

To me, that means Ali knew what Rachel was about to tell her and stops her. Because she knows that Rachel put the watch in the bag and is telling Rachel that it doesn’t matter anymore.

However, Meredith in comments suggests Noah as a possible narrato r and I like that idea!

The arguments for Noah are 1) Noah and Rachel are closer and he would be more likely to expect Rachel to tell him the truth and 2) the narrator says “knowing Rachel as I know her” and Noah knows Rachel much better than Ali does.

I’m still going with Ali, but I think Meredith’s Noah guess is a good one. What do you think?

Who drove the car into the wedding party?

Thanks to Laurel-Manette for her excellent question in comments. Here is my answer (from the comments):

What we do know: The car ended up in the water. Paige’s body is found in the car (the police don’t say if she was in the driver’s seat or the passenger seat).

After the accident Rachel finds Jack lying on the terrace. The police say that Jack’s watch was in footwell of the car (presumably it fell out of Paige’s bag during the crash.)

No one seems to have seen the driver, and Paige is dead, so we can’t hear her side of the story.

Possibility #1: Paige was driving the car, either alone or with Jack in the car.

In this scenario, Paige overheard Rachel and Noah talking about how Noah could be Rachel’s son’s father and flew into a rage.

As Rachel says earlier about Paige, if someone is capable of sleeping with their best friend’s husband, they are capable of anything. In this scenario, Jack gets blamed because Rachel put his watch in Paige’s handbag as a way of saying “I know you are sleeping with my husband.” BUT was Jack in the car with Paige?

Paige could have told Jack what she’d overheard. Jack would have also been extremely upset and, in their hurry to leave the wedding together, maybe Paige (accidentally or on purpose) drove into the wedding party.

Possibility #2: Jack was the one who was driving, with Paige in the car.

Maybe Jack was the one who overheard the conversation between Rachel and Noah and was shocked and hurt to realize he might not be his son’s biological father.

So maybe, in a rage, he told Paige he wanted to leave and then (accidentally or on purpose) drove into the group. BUT: he was found on the terrace after the accident, not in the car.

When he’s questioned by the police, Jack suggests that maybe Ali was driving and jumped out of the car, which is an absurd theory.

But maybe Jack got the idea because that is what Jack did himself. When Rachel reaches Jack after the crash, he does seem badly hurt.

Could he have managed to jump out of the car before it flew into the water? I feel that’s sort of doubtful. At the end, Ali’s mom suggests to Rachel that Jack was driving, with Paige in the car.

BUT if Paige’s body had been found in the passenger seat, wouldn’t the police say that?

While I think Jack had a stronger motive to drive the car into the wedding party, I still think the evidence seems to suggest that Paige was driving the car alone , but I am curious to hear other people’s theories!

How did Jack get framed by his wife (and Ali) for causing Paige’s death?

The book suggests that Rachel put Jack’s watch in Paige’s bag as a way of telling Paige that she knew she slept with Rachel’s husband Jack.

Then when the police found Jack’s watch in the car, they assumed Jack was in the car with Paige. I’m assuming that Jack denied being in the car and claimed he was being framed, but Ali testified that Jack was a known liar, which got him convicted.

Other Questions:

Where does Paige (or Jack) get the car to drive onto the terrace? Noah, Rachel and Paige take a cab to the wedding. (Jack goes earlier with the bridal party.)

When Rachel is upset at the wedding, Paige offers to call her a taxi. Also if you were going to impulsively steal a car and run down someone with it, would your first thought be to grab your purse? Why? You don’t need car keys or a driver’s license.

Maybe this suggests that Paige and Jack just intended to leave the wedding, and the crash was an accident.

I didn’t understand the timeline of the wedding day. The group get up, shower and get dressed, and head to the wedding. After the ceremony, an announcer invites everyone to the “wedding breakfast.” But when Rachel follows Ali and Jack outside to the caves, Rachel says the sun is setting.

The accident clearly happens at night, because there are fireworks and Rachel sees the car’s headlights as it bears down on her. How long is this wedding, anyway? (Someone in comments pointed out that in the UK, “wedding breakfast” is used for any wedding meal. Thanks!)

Was the book suggesting that Jack IS Josh’s biological father?

Rachel tells Ali that yes, Josh did “lose” his father. To prison? This was a little vague for me, but I think Rachel means 1) Josh lost the only father he has ever known and 2) she’s not telling Josh the truth, which is that Noah is his father.

Was Jack trying to get caught cheating? Carrying around the receipt for Paige’s bracelet seemed odd.

I hope you enjoyed my Spoiler Discussion for the Guilt Trip

What are your questions and do you have any answers to mine? Please comment and if you want to be notified of responses to your comments OR all future comments, there are options for that!

If you’re looking for similar books to read, you can try Her Dark Lies by J. T. Ellison OR The Guest List by Lucy Foley, both about murder and mayhem at a destination wedding. I have spoiler discussions for both:

Spoiler Discussion for Her Dark Lies

Spoiler Discussion for The Guest List

I think it’s Noah telling the epilogue. That he saw Rachel put the watch in Paige’s bag. And as information comes to light (the affair) he keeps quiet to keep Rachel safe.

I think the timeline of the wedding is that it’s an all day affair. They are there long enough for low tide (the beach is visible) to high tide (which swallows the beach and then some).

As far as Josh losing his father – I interpret it to mean he lost the only father he has known (to prison). I don’t think Rachel would tell him that Noah was his father – even if they found it to be true.

Ooh interesting on the Noah narration. Going to go back and look. And yes I agree that I don’t think Rachel will tell Josh

But the narrator mentions the watch inscription which Ali knew but I doubt Noah would

Ooh great point. Thanks, LiliAnn!!

I don’t think it’s Noah because in the prologue the speaker wakes up in a hospital bed and is asked if they knew the deceased which noah was the one to identify the body so the police wouldn’t ask him that and also he wasn’t injured so he wasn’t in a hospital bed.

This sounds so dumb but I just finished it and I’m confused at who was driving the car?? If it wasn’t Jack, and Rachel put his watch in the car, does that mean rachel killed Paige? Help lol!

There are no dumb questions here! Also, the book doesn’t really give a definitive answer. Who was in the car, and who was driving??

What we do know: The car ended up in the water. Paige’s body is found in the car. Rachel finds Jack lying on the terrace. Jack’s watch was in the car (and presumably Paige’s bag, since the watch was in the bag.)

Possibility 1: Paige was driving the car. She overheard Rachel and her husband Noah talking about how Noah could be Rachel’s son’s father and flew into a rage. As Rachel says earlier about her, if she’s capable of sleeping with her best friend’s husband, she’s capable of anything. In this scenario, Jack gets blamed as well because Rachel put his watch in Paige’s bag as a way of saying “I know what you did.” BUT was Jack in the car with her? She could have told him what she’d overheard and they agreed to leave the wedding and then she (accidentally or on purpose) drove into the wedding party.

Scenario #2 Jack was the one who was driving, with Paige in the car. Maybe HE was the one who overheard the conversation between Rachel and Noah and was shocked and hurt to realize he might not be his son’s biological father. So maybe, in a rage, he drove into the group. When he’s questioned by the police, he even suggests that Ali was driving and got out of the car, which is perhaps what Jack did himself. When Rachel reaches him after the crash, he does seem badly hurt. But could he really have managed to get out of the car before it went into the water? At the end, Ali’s mom suggests that Jack was driving, with Paige in the car. But not sure why she says this.

My theory is still that Paige was alone in the car, but curious to hear other people’s theories!

Thank you! Super helpful!! Thanks for taking the time to write this all out! 🙂

No problem. And thanks for making me think about the possible driver in a different way. I wouldn’t have considered Dan except for your question 🙂

It’s a small part of one of your questions, but in England, a wedding reception is usually called the wedding breakfast even if it’s lunch or dinner.

Dale, thank you! I am an Anglophile but I did not know that 🙂

There are lots of lies and half truths.

Ali is lying. Her and Jack did sleep together and when Jack finished the affair to be with Paige he made sure Ali got the sack.

Ali wants to make out that Jack is a fibber so that she can claim they didn’t sleep together in order to protect her relationship with Will. That’s why she’s happy to give evidence that puts Jack into prison. Perhaps she only went out with Will in the first place to get back at Jack, but then fell properly in love.

Rachel is happy for Jack to go to prison because he lied about his affair with Ali and with Paige and who knows who else. He may or may not have been driving the car but she’s been manipulated so much who can say. It also leaves Rachel free to be with Noah who she realised she really loved when he nearly died.

I personally think Paige drove the car in a suicide mission because she knew that Rachel knows about the affair (from the watch Rachel put in her handbag) and can’t live with herself.

Paige realised that Rachel loves Noah too because of how she was when he nearly died and maybe the suicide was also her gift to Rachel to say sorry.

Hi Sally, Ooh, I love all your excellent observations. I agree with everything you said except maybe your theory about Paige. To me, Paige didn’t seem the slightest bit guilty about betraying her best friend. I think it’s definitely possible that after Paige overheard Rachel say that Paige’s husband Noah could be the father of Rachel’s son, she ran off in a blind fury and accidentally crashed the car. That, or she was furious at Noah and Rachel and meant to drive the car into them. I think she always resented Rachel and Noah’s closeness and slept with Jack as revenge.

It says the only one not hurt was Noah so I’m thinking Paige ended things with Jack because she realised she loved Noah after the surfing accident then after finding out about Rachel and Noah, tried to run Rachel down out of rage. She was a very fiery person. She specifically avoided Noah because she still loved him. Jack’s comment about if I can’t have you noone can was potentially just a spur of the moment comment or something he planned to act on in the future. She didn’t live long enough though.

That makes so much sense. She decided to re-dedicate herself to Noah and then after finding out about Noah possibly being Rachel’s son’s father and Rachel having a thing for Noah, she just lost it.

The one thing that made me question if the ridiculous story of Ali jumping out of the car might have happened was the fact that Ali’s mom was in a wheelchair from a car accident. Like I want to know did Ali also cause that car accident? Is that why they kept talking about how her mom ended up in a wheelchair?

After the surfing accident, Paige has sex with Jack in the rooftop hot tub so I don’t think she suddenly realizes how much she loves Noah.

I listened to the audiobook and it is Ali’s voice in the epilogue.

Very interesting! So what is your take on what happens in the car crash and why?

One of the most poorly written books I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. And so frigging dumb!! I skipped over so many paragraphs of idiocy! Ridiculous that it gets such high praise.

Hi Mary, I hope you enjoy your next book more!

I just finished reading the book and I’m also a bit confused. Why didn’t the police mention whether Paige was in the driver’s or passenger’s seat.. that way she wont be a suspect if she is in the passenger’s seat (maybe I missed that part). Also could there be a chance that Noah was driving? And jumped out right before the car fell off? How could it be Ali if Ali was talking to Rachel while the incident happened. Also maybe Ali put the watch in Paige’s purse since she is the last one to have it.. I’m no investigator but the fact that Jack had facial injuries wouldn’t that suggest that there is a bigger chance that he flew out of a moving car and rolled around verses if he got hit by a car he would fall backwards? I’m reaching at this point haha! 🙂 I have too many questions but no answers!

Hi Hilda – I think a lot of us felt that way. The book ended, and then all our questions didn’t get answers! I think Paige got thrown from the car, so it couldn’t be proven where she was sitting. I’m going to have to review my notes before answering all the rest of the questions, so stay tuned!

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BY Michael Schaub • Aug. 2, 2021

Sandie Jones’ The Guilt Trip is the latest pick for Barnes and Noble’s book club.

Jones’ novel, her fourth, follows three couples who travel to Portugal for a wedding and whose lives are thrown into disarray when one woman uncovers a secret about another.

“Sandie Jones keeps the reader guessing until the end with a slow building tension that makes for a great novel,” said Shannon DeVito, Barnes and Noble’s director of books. “We are very excited for our Book Club Readers to dive into this twisty tale that shows the fatal danger of jumping to a conclusion.”

Jones is known for her debut novel, The Other Woman , which was published in 2018. That thriller was a pick for Reese Witherspoon’s book club, which helped launch it to the New York Times bestseller list.

The author recalled visiting a Barnes and Noble in Los Angeles after her first two novels were published, where an employee asked her to sign her books and participate in an impromptu video interview.

“I didn’t think the gratitude I felt could ever be surpassed, but the fabulous [Barnes and Noble] folks have gone and done it again by selecting my new novel The Guilt Trip as their August pick!” Jones said. “Thank you so much. I’ll be flying out as soon as we’re allowed to with marker in hand!”

The Guilt Trip was published Tuesday by Minotaur.

Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.

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#BookReview The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones @MinotaurBooks @StMartinsPress #SandieJones #TheGuiltTrip #MinotaurInfluencers #SMPInfluencers

In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page.

Six friends.

Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.

Three couples.

As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.

One fatal misunderstanding . . .

But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.

Gripping, tight, and ominous!

The Guilt Trip  is a twisty, pacey, domestic thriller that delves into the complex bonds that exist between friends and family members and reminds us that behind all those happy, smiling faces often lies an abundance of devastating secrets and destructive lies.

The writing is taut and edgy. The characters are secretive, manipulative, and troubled. And the plot is suspenseful and highly entertaining as it twists, turns, and unravels all the motivations, personalities, and relationships within it.

The Guilt Trip , at its core, is a novel about marital discord, friendship, deception, jealousy, misconceptions, devious behaviours, and murder. It’s an intense, dramatic, exceptionally menacing tale by Jones, and even though it seems to be getting some mixed reviews at the moment, I thoroughly enjoyed it and am now, more than ever, eager to read the copy of The Other Woman that has been sitting on my unread shelves for far too long.

This book is available now.

Pick up a copy from your favourite retailer or from one of the following links.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press – Minotaur Books for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

About Sandie Jones

SANDIE JONES has worked as a freelance journalist for more than twenty years and has written for publications including The Sunday Times, Woman’s Weekly, and Hello magazine. She lives in Lon-don with her husband and three children. She is the author of The Other Woman, a Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick, as well as The First Mistake and The Half Sister. The Guilt Trip is her fourth novel.

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Great review. I just finished this one as well and it was so twisty.

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From Sandie Jones, the bestselling author of THE OTHER WOMAN and THE HALF SISTER, comes THE GUILT TRIP, a riveting “locked-door” mystery sure to find its way into every beach bag this summer.

Rachel and her husband, Jack, have been best friends with Paige and Noah for almost two decades, their various milestones --- children, promotions and the woes of age --- marking the time they have spent together and solidifying their friendships. But Rachel and Noah were friends first, ever since university, and no one can deny that their bond is one of the stronger ones in the group. Now in their 40s, Rachel, Jack, Paige and Noah are enjoying being empty-nesters and rekindling their romances now that their children, Josh and Chloe, are off beginning their own education adventures. First up in their new lives is Jack’s brother Will’s wedding to Ali, a blonde-haired, curvy and salacious drama queen.

"An instant beach-read classic with plenty of room for discussions on infidelity, friendship and marriage, THE GUILT TRIP is a twisted and endlessly entertaining thriller from an excellent author."

Things are already off to a rocky start as Ali nearly derails the couples’ flight to Portugal when she “loses” her passport somewhere between the car and the security checkpoint. Rachel tries to be sympathetic, knowing how frantic any bride would be when jetting off to her fancy destination wedding, but Jack and Paige make it clear that they have had it with her antics. Not only is Ali always the most gorgeous woman in the room, which annoys Rachel and Paige, she always has to be the most bombastic storyteller, the girl who gets right up and does a final dance with the performers of a musical and saves a man from dying by suicide on her way to the doctor...allegedly.

At least in Portugal, the couples have an idyllic setting in a gorgeous villa to distract them from Ali’s shenanigans . Still, Rachel cannot help but wonder why Jack seems to hate Ali so much, despite their background as coworkers. Nor can she ignore the obvious tension between her and Noah, her best friend and secret one-time lover. All the while, Ali continues to stir up drama, giggling incessantly at nothing and bouncing around like a first-class bimbo. Needless to say, her wedding to Will is sure to be unforgettable.

Shortly before the cermony, Jack lets it slip why he doesn’t like Ali: He claims to know a man who was seeing her while she was also dating his brother, now soon-to-be husband. Rachel, Paige and Noah agree that no good can come from derailing Will’s wedding --- for better or for worse, no one thanks the person who ruins the big day --- but the idea of infidelity seems to stick to the forefront of their minds. As Ali alludes to having a former married lover, and Jack’s behavior starts to reek of hypocrisy, Rachel must wonder: Has Ali slept with her husband, too? And if so, does their crime of passion outweigh, or excuse, the single night she spent with Noah early in her relationship with Jack? With each member of the wedding party seeming to hide something , the couples’ marriages and friendships start to unravel, one broken secret at a time.

Sandie Jones has penned another serious suspense story, with plenty of conclusion-jumping, red herrings, lies and misdirection. While the idyllic Portuguese villa makes this novel scream “beach read!” the plotline is no less serious or devious than her previous works. After kicking off with a murder scene and working backward, Jones expertly wields her characters’ deepest fears and then throws them into a pressure cooker of suspense until each one has something precious to lose --- and to fight for. Add to that some decidedly gray-area friendships, and you have a guaranteed implosion...and an incredibly fun, riveting journey on the way there.

Jones is a master at playing with cookie-cutter relationships --- husband, wife, best friend, brother --- and alerting her readers to something sinister just beneath the surface. At one point, Rachel notes, “They all got something from each other’s spouses that they didn’t get from their own.” While there’s no harm in this gray area, Jones pushes it to its limit, asking just how much our spouses can ever complete us, and whether or not it is ever truly acceptable, or honest, to find these missing pieces in others. Even if it is, she reminds us, it does not mean that there will never be jealousy, rage or competition, and her characters run the gamut of these emotions in the action-packed weekend that makes up the book.

An instant beach-read classic with plenty of room for discussions on infidelity, friendship and marriage, THE GUILT TRIP is a twisted and endlessly entertaining thriller from an excellent author.

Reviewed by Rebecca Munro on August 27, 2021

The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones

• Publication Date: June 7, 2022
• Genres: Fiction , Psychological Suspense , Psychological Thriller , Suspense , Thriller
• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• ISBN-10: 1250265606
• ISBN-13: 9781250265609

New Release Book Review: The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones

Title:  The Guilt Trip

Author:  Sandie Jones

Published:  June 29th 2021

Publisher:  Pan Macmillan

Pages:  416

Genres:   Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Suspense

RRP:  $32.99

Rating:  4 stars

The Guilt Trip  is the compelling, twisty novel from Sandie Jones, the author of  The Other Woman , and perfect for fans of T.M. Logan’s  The Holiday .

They went away as friends They came back as suspects . . .

Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée.

To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend get-away together in Portugal.

It’s a chance to relax and get to know Ali a little better perhaps. A newcomer to their group, she seems perfectly nice and Will seems happy after years of bad choices. But Ali is hiding more than one secret . . .

By the end of the weekend there’ll be one dead body and five people with guilty consciences wondering if they really know each other so well after all. Because one of them has to be the killer . . .

Billed as this season’s hottest thriller, The Guilt Trip is the latest release from domestic suspense author Sandie Jones. With twists aplenty and secrets galore, The Guilt Trip is an absorbing read that is full of drama and mystery.

Questions of innocence and guilt swirl around the brand new tale from domestic noir specialist Sandie Jones. When The Guilt Trip begins, we meet five longtime friends and the fiancée of one member of this group. As the group prepare for a big trip to celebrate the upcoming nuptials of Ali and Will, this friendship circle sees the time away as a chance to get to know each other more, especially newcomer Ali. It seems that Will may have finally made the right choice with Ali, but Ali is a woman hiding a secret. By the end of this exotic getaway to Portugal, there will be a death and a shock for the group to bear. But with everyone hiding a secret or two, it is unclear as to who may be responsible for the dead body. The question remains, how well do these friends really know each other?

London based author Sandie Jones hit my radar last year when I reviewed her 2020 release The Half Sister . This domestic noir tale blew me away. Soon after I read The Half Sister I sourced a copy of Sandie Jones’ first novel, The Other Woman , which I also enjoyed. I was quite bedside myself when I saw that Sandie Jones had a new book coming out, based on my love of her previous titles. The Guilt Trip proved to be another winning tale from this fabulous author, who I now consider to be a firm favourite.

There was a great sense of involvement for the reader in this tale, which began from the very opening of the novel. I felt like an extra friend, hotel companion or even tourist onlooker, as the events of this novel unraveled. The focus group of this tale, five long standing friends and a fiancée, were left quite exposed by the story at hand. I revelled in their respective secrets, lies, betrayals and admissions that were disclosed as this domestic suspense novel moved along at a swift pace.

Sandie Jones does a good job of building the tension, suspense and sense of blame in her tale. There is a strong sense that trouble is about to be unleashed on this holiday, which is clear from the book’s blurb, but the sense of anticipation surrounding a possible death compels the reader to invest their all in this engrossing tale. With plenty of blame shifts, red herrings, twists, blocks and turns, it is hard to know where The Guilt Trip is going. If you are a seasoned thriller or suspense fan this style of narrative will make you very happy.

The setting base of Portugal with its stunning coastline and chic hotspots help to illuminate the events of The Guilt Trip . With a cast that are both detestable and likeable, Sandie Jones has produced a divisive tale. The relationships featured in this novel are both supportive and toxic in the same breath, adding some interesting dynamics to the story at hand. The guilt, shame, secrets and lies that follow this small group of friends was really scandalous at times but really fun to uncover too! The race to the finale was great as the sense of intrigue reaches its final peak.

A story full of complicated relationships, past history, personal issues, deceit, deception and a whole lot of drama, The Guilt Trip is another fabulous read from Sandie Jones.

The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones was published on 29th June 2021 by Pan Macmillan. Details on how to purchase the book can be found here.

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Book Review: ‘The Guilt Trip: A Novel’ By Sandie Jones

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Six people are off to Portugal for a wedding and not everyone will return from what turns out to be a time of lies, betrayals, secret hook-ups and death. It has to be another Sandie Jones novel. She excels on these kind of twisty, character driven novels that keep you hooked into reading, right up to the final twist.

For Will it’s a happy time. He’s marrying Ali, the woman of is dreams. Along for the trip are his brother Jack and his wife Rachel and friends Noah and Paige. Things don’t start off well as Ali can’t find her passport at first. Then they get there and the dislike of Ali hits a fever pitch. Jack, Rachel, Noah and Paige don’t like her. They catch her in lies and soon she’s telling tales. And when secrets are slowly revealed among the four of them, no one is sure who to believe. Then a shocking event takes place and someone ends up dead. Just who has been telling the truth and who has been lying?

You can pick up The Guilt Trip in stores on Tuesday, August 3rd from Minotaur Books.

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About the Author:

SANDIE JONES has worked as a freelance journalist for more than twenty years and has written for publications including  The Sunday Times ,  Woman’s Weekly , and  Hello  magazine. She lives in Lon-don with her husband and three children. She is the author of  The Other Woman , a Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine pick, as well as  The First Mistake  and  The Half Sister .  The Guilt Trip  is her fourth novel.

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This Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition includes a Q&A with the author, Sandie Jones, a deleted scene, as well as a discussion guide.

In the vein of  The Other Woman , Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel  The Guilt Trip  will have readers gripped to the very last page. Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.

Three couples. As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.

One fatal misunderstanding . . .

But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.

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The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones

About The Guilt Trip

Six friends. Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali. The group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.

Three couples. As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.

One fatal misunderstanding . . .

But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.

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Reader’s Thoughts

This book was a different read than I was expecting. While the cover description led me to expect murder and mystery, the story’s emphasis is instead very much on the characters’ relationships and group dynamics. Personally, I feel this was a bit of a marketing issue with this book.

But setting aside my initial assumptions about the book, it was still an okay read for me. While there wasn’t the action or suspense I’d been expecting, I was still curious as to what was going on. The author has a unique writing style which helped add to the story. And with so many layers of secrets and lies fueling this group of friends, it kept me engaged.

As you near the end of the book, things start happening quickly. This was very different pacing from the rest of the novel and took me by surprise. It also left me a bit confused about certain points. (No spoilers, but there were a few aspects to the final chapters that didn’t fully add up for me…) It was almost like reading a different story and I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.

My recommendation: If you’re looking for a murder mystery, this isn’t the story for you. I would only recommend this for those looking for a family drama full of gossipy secrets and a heavily dialogue-driven plot.

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One of the worst written novels I’ve ever read. Unbelievable plot lines, terrible character development, and phrasing that a sixth grader wouldn’t use: “involuntary jaw spasm” at times of tension was the most overused and terrible of them all. Set in Portugal, but it might as well have been in Yonkers. This is a book I would not loan to anyone. I’m sorry I spent a few hours reading it; a waste of time.

You said it very well….I did not enjoy this book. It felt like a cheap soap opera…gossipy, judgmental, lacking in morals, not much depth. Nothing about Portugal was developed. Certainly won’t recommend this book to my friends!

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Book Review: The Guilt Trip | Sandie Jones

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Guilt Trip

AUTHOR: Sandie Jones

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Stars: ⭐⭐ + 🐢

Published: August 3, 2021

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The Review 📚 The Guilt Trip

✨ The Title/Cover Draw:

• I had enjoyed some previous Sandie Jones books, so I was interested in some more. Thank you to @Netgalley and Minotaur for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.

💜 What I liked:

• The thing I loved about this book is the description for the setting. It sounded like a beautiful beach and hotel.

😱 What I didn’t like:

• As you know, I don’t like to be totally negative about a book. But this one confused me for a lot of reasons. First, it’s being marketed as a thriller but there is no element of danger except at the end. There is a mystery but it’s basically “is the bride sleeping with her soon to be sister-in-law’s husband”. The thriller part might be at the end, but it’s too much blink and you miss it. It’s clumsily revealed with the addition of an epilogue that was more confusing than wrapped up. The shallowness of the main character also annoyed me, as she lent herself more to gossip than just getting to know someone.  Overall this book was a miss for me.

🚦 My face at the end: 🤦‍♀️

💭 2 Reasons to Read:

• 1. Exciting Setting
• 2. Mysterious personalities

🕧 Mini-Summary:

• Rachel, Jack, Noah, and Paige are traveling to Portugal to attend the wedding of Jack’s brother Will and Ali. There are many secrets and lies.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.

📘 Summary 📚 The Guilt Trip

In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page.

Six friends.

Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend.

Three couples.

As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.

One fatal misunderstanding . . .

But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death.

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In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman , Sandie Jones’s explosive next novel The Guilt Trip will have readers gripped to the very last page. They went away as friends. They came back as suspects. Rachel and Jack. Paige and Noah. And Will. Five friends who’ve known one another for years. Then along came Ali, Will’s new fiancée. The three couples travel to Portugal for Ali and Will’s destination wedding. The weekend away at the gorgeous cliff-top villa is a chance to relax and get to know Ali an little better. She seems perfectly nice―and Will seems happy after years of bad choices. But when Rachel discovers a shocking secret about Ali, everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them holds begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. In Sandie Jones’s explosive suspense novel, jumping to conclusions can become the difference between life and death.

• Print length 336 pages
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A USA Today Bestseller! One of CNN.com’s “Most Anticipated New Books to Read this August” One of Parade.com's "The Ultimate Summer Reading List: 25 Books You'll Want to Read this Sizzling Season" One of Popsugar's " Hit the Beach―or the Couch―With the 45 Best Summer Reads of 2021" One of Brit+Co's "Books to Read on Vacation" Part of Frolic's "Summer Bucket List: Hot Summer Thrillers and Mysteries" One of Bookbub's "Five Twist-filled Books to Read This Month" "Explosive . . . Filled with twists and turns, the story will keep you guessing until the end."― National Examiner " In this entertaining thriller buoyed by perceptive dialogue, couples who've come to Portugal for a wedding are overwhelmed by the secrets that threaten to ruin each relationship."―Shelf Awareness "[Jones] is truly a master at writing domestic suspense and characters that will drive you mad! I recommend picking this one up if you are a fan of domestic drama and scandal and are looking for a quick and light read to take with you to the beach before the summer ends."―The Reading Beauty Blog Praise for Sandie Jones: "One of the most twisted and entertaining plots."―Reese Witherspoon on The Other Woman "A perfect beach read."―Kristin Hannah on The Other Woman "A twisty, deliciously fun read."―Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling co-author of An Anonymous Girl on The Other Woman "Whiplash-inducing."― The New York Times Book Review on The Other Woman "Such fun. You'll cheer [Emily's] chutzpah."― People on The Other Woman "An addictive, page-turning thriller."― National Examiner on The First Mistake "This thriller will hit close to home."―Refinery29 on The Other Woman "Excellent . . . Jones delivers a tightly coiled story in The Other Woman and fills it with believable characters."―Associated Press "Advice: read this!"― Suspense Magazine on The First Mistake

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If Sandie wasn't an author she'd be an interior designer as she has an unhealthy obsession with wallpaper and cushions!

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Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand have enough chemistry to drive a solidly assembled comedy; unfortunately, The Guilt Trip has a lemon of a script and is perilously low on comedic fuel.

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