None of This is True
The addictive #1 Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller from the author of The Family Upstairs
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Publisher Description
Buy now and prepare to be hooked from the Number One bestselling thriller author . . .
* AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *
* OVER 6,000 FIVE STAR REVIEWS *
* AUDIBLE NO.1 SIX WEEKS IN A ROW *
'Gloriously dark' Lucy Foley
'A moody, slippery novel' Gillian McAllister
'One hundred percent brilliant' Clare Mackintosh
'Shocking and creepy and glorious' Nicola Walker
'Utterly addictive' Claire Douglas
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Celebrating her 45th birthday at her local pub, podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie is also celebrating her 45th.
A few days later, they bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie says she thinks she would be an interesting subject for Alix's podcast. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Alix agrees to a trial interview and indeed, Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated. Alix finds her unsettling but can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging.
Slowly Alix starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it Josie has cajoled her way into Alix's life - and into her home.
Soon Alix begins to wonder who is Josie Fair really? And what has she done?
* The Hi! I'm Your Birthday Twin podcast has been bought to life! Listen to all 4 episodes and find out more at penguin.co.uk/BirthdayTwin *
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Readers can't get enough of None of This is True . . .
***** 'Lisa Jewell is BACK with a banger baby!!! and this might just be my favourite of hers yet.'
***** 'I'm speechless after reading this bone chilling, dark, twisty, mind bending thriller'
***** 'Did it deliver??? OMG !!! wait until you read this!!!'
***** 'OMG!!!!!! Dare I say this may just be Lisa Jewells best book yet!?'
***** 'What in the actual hell did I just read???? Bingeable, unreliable, unhinged in the best way, and well developed!'
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More love for None of This is True . . .
'Left me reeling' Adele Parks
'You will ignore everyone and everything until you’ve finished it' India Knight
‘A tense, superbly crafted exploration of obsession.’ Steve Cavanagh
'Really dark and twisty' Graham Norton
'MAGNIFICENT' Marian Keyes
'So suspenseful, so smart, so insightful.' Katherine Heiny
'A pitch-black fever dream of a novel' Ruth Ware
'Have never read a book so fast!' Hayley Morris
'A sleek, playful, mesmerising read' Louise Candlish
'Twisty twisty twisty' Emily Henry
'You're in for a treat' Jojo Moyes
'Rollercoaster of a read' Jane Fallon
'I inhaled it!' Harriet Tyce
'Lisa Jewell [has] confirmed her status as a powerhouse of psychological thrillers' Sunday Express
'The most gripping thriller I read this year' Daily Express
Lisa Jewell, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023
None of This is True, instant Sunday Times bestseller July 2023
Number 1 on Audible, July-August 2023
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Lisa Jewell hasn’t shifted 10 million books over her 25-year career by accident. Here we find the best-selling London novelist at the peak of her powers, in another psychological thriller that’s impossible not to rip through in a matter of hours. Alix and Josie were born on the same day, in the same hospital, 45 years ago…but that’s where the similarities end. After a chance meeting, the birthday twins and odd couple end up working together—Alix, a glamorous podcaster, is so intrigued by downtrodden Josie’s strange aura that she agrees to record a series about her. Big mistake. Huge. The characters are deftly drawn, the plotting is impeccable, and the impending sense of doom will chill your bones. In a good way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this edgy thriller from bestseller Jewell (The Family Remains), meek housewife Josie Fair and true crime podcaster Alix Summers meet by chance in a pub where both are celebrating their 45th birthdays. Immediately obsessed with her more successful counterpart, Josie engineers several "chance" meetings with Alix—including one outside her children's school—in order to forge a friendship. Instead of feeling threatened, Alix decides to feature Josie on a podcast about the lives of ordinary women. Before long, though, Josie divulges that beneath her modest middle-class home life lie instances of pedophilia, child abuse, and even murder. But are any of Josie's stories true? As Alix digs deeper, she begins to question her new friend's motives for meeting her in the first place, and through a series of reversals, comes to fear she's been set up in a twisted game of cat and mouse. Jewell devotees who love the author's signature twisted characters and acidic cultural commentary—here focused on the travails of internet celebrity—will be satisfied by this pitch-black outing and its shocking climax, but readers with a lower tolerance for nastiness should turn elsewhere. Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins fans, this one's for you.
Customer Reviews
Great
Loved the set up of this book. The “Netflix documentary” style was brilliant. Couldn’t put it down.
Couldn’t get enough
It was gripping from the beginning a really page turner
Just fantastic
Brilliantly written, a gripping story I just couldn’t put down.