The Soulmate is a buzzy book at the moment, and I decided to give it a read. I've never read Sally Hepworth before and I can now say I get the hype. Her writing is very easy to read, the pace of this book kept me going, and I finished this book in two days. If I had fewer obligations and responsibilities (or more apathy), I could have definitely read it in one. 

This is a dual perspective, dual timeline book. We read from the perspectives of Amanda and Pippa, and they each have chapters set both now and in the past. Pippa is married to Gabe, and they recently bought a house by a cliff. Gabe has developed a reputation for saving people who come to the cliff to jump. But one night, Gabe sees a woman at the cliff and she does jump. Pippa sees the interaction from inside the house and has her doubts about what happened, but she can't share that for fear of what the police will think. 

As the story progresses, we learn how Pippa and Gabe were connected to the woman who jumped. I think it's best to go into this book without more information than that, lest the early twists and turns read as boring. 

I enjoyed this book but have gone back and forth about how to rate it because I was not a fan of the mental health representation, especially by the end. What I did love was the portrayal of two different marriages and all the challenges the couples faced. Hepworth was spot on in her depiction of the internal and external lives of a marriage, the decisions we make with our spouse and all the feelings and choices we hold in ourselves for better or worse. 

Overall, I think I recommend this book. If mental health rep is a sensitive topic for you, I'd skip it. I've definitely read better and I've definitely read worse around that. It's not nearly as bad as The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica but it's not as well done as The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh.