Sometimes I Lie
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4.3 • 50 Ratings
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- €4.49
Publisher Description
* SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AS AMBER REYNOLDS *
‘Marvellous’ A. J. Finn
’A bold and original voice’ Clare Mackintosh
‘A brilliant thriller’ Ali Land
My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me.
1. I’m in a coma
2. My husband doesn’t love me any more
3. Sometimes I lie
Unnerving, twisted and utterly compelling, you won’t be able to put this thriller down.
Reviews
‘A gripping debut with a brilliant twist, I loved it’ B A Paris
‘Boldly plotted, tightly knotted – a provocative true-or-false thriller that deepens and darkens to its ink-black finale. Marvellous’ A. J. Finn
‘A bold and original voice – I loved this book’ Clare Mackintosh
‘Expect perfectly imbedded twists and sharply drawn characters. A brilliant thriller’ Ali Land
‘A tightly written thriller with an ending that demands you go straight back to the beginning’ Metro
‘Satisfyingly serpentine, and with a terrific double twist in the tale, it leaves you longing for more’ Daily Mail
‘Intriguing, original and addictive, I can’t wait to see what the author does after this blinding debut’ The Sun
‘Clever and utterly compelling’ The Sun on Sunday’s FABULOUS Magazine
‘Clever, compelling and masterfully plotted’ Daily Express
‘Sometimes I Lie is a rare book, combining helter skelter twists with razor sharp sentences. Make sure you read it in a well lit room, Alice Feeney’s imagination is a very dark place indeed’ Dan Dalton, BuzzFeed
‘An utterly compelling, twisted, shocking psychological thriller that made me gasp out loud’ Sophie Raworth, BBC Presenter
About the author
Alice Feeney is a writer and journalist. She spent fifteen years at the BBC where she worked as a reporter, news editor, arts and entertainment producer and One O’clock news producer.
Alice has lived in London and Sydney and has now settled in the Surrey countryside, where she lives with her husband and dog.
Her debut novel, Sometimes I Lie, was a New York Times and international bestseller. The book has been sold in over twenty countries and is being made into a TV series by a major film studio. I Know Who You Are is her second novel.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Amid the wealth of psychological thrillers available, Alice Feeney’s debut novel stands out for its brilliant construction and shocking climax. Amber Reynolds is locked in a coma, grasping at memories from the near and distant past as she tries to piece together what’s happened to her. The mystery is even trickier for readers to unpick because Amber admits to a previous tendency towards chicanery and half-truths. Feeney writes in fresh, pin-sharp prose as she drives her fascinatingly flawed characters towards one final, gob-smacking twist.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Almost nothing is as it initially appears in BBC News veteran Feeney's bold if overambitious debut, a serpentine tale of betrayal, madness, and murder. Amber Reynolds, a radio show presenter, is lying in a London-area hospital in a coma the day after Christmas, body unresponsive but mind alert, struggling to piece together what happened to her and whether it has anything to do with Paul, her husband (whom the police suspect), or Claire, the younger sister she fears Paul's fallen for. Not to mention the menacing man who sneaks into her hospital room. But as days pass and memories flood back both from the turbulent previous weeks, when she was fighting to keep her job and near-frantic about Paul being unfaithful, and from the particularly fraught year when she was 11 it becomes clear that this is an infinitely more sinister story. Feeney packs the final 60-odd pages with a series of head-spinning and, in some cases, head-scratching plot twists; the overall effect is to leave readers wondering exactly what happened and how much of Amber's account they can believe. Feeney is definitely a writer to watch.
