Invisible Girl
A psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
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4.5 • 20 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
You don't see her. But she sees you. From the #1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone comes an engrossing, twist-packed story of dark family secrets and betrayal.
'Her best yet.' JOJO MOYES
'Dark, furiously twisty and utterly gripping.' LUCY FOLEY
'A masterclass in how to write with pace and tension.' HARRIET TYCE
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MIDNIGHT. In the bad part of town, where cats prowl and foxes shriek, a girl is watching...
When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides and watches him, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows.
Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend.
Nobody sees him. Nobody cares.
But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's Day, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen.
Accusing him. Holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance . . .
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Readers can't get enough of Invisible Girl . . .
***** 'Hot diggity dang!! Now that's what I been talking about!'
***** 'There is more than one mystery to unravel here fans!!'
***** 'Every time I thought I had figured out what was going on things changed again!'
***** 'This book was crazy good. I couldn't read it fast enough'
***** 'This suspenseful thriller will touch your heart and captivate you with the shocking conclusion!'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Lisa Jewell is known for crafting gripping psychological thrillers that bring unique parts of London to life. Told via three narrators whose lives are intertwined, Invisible Girl is set in an eerie, near-deserted corner of wealthy Hampstead. Troubling themes—abuse, abduction, infidelity, assault and the incel subculture—are tackled with startling intensity in a story that orbits Roan Fours, a child psychologist, his wife Cate, and their two young children, who harbour their own secrets. Jewell’s masterful ability to create provocative twists, deeply suspenseful plots and layered, surprising characters has never been clearer. Ideal for fans of Karin Slaughter and Lucy Foley, Invisible Girl will keep you thinking long after you’ve finished reading.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Facile plotting, underdeveloped characters, and unconvincing stakes mar this disappointing domestic thriller from bestseller Jewell (The Family Upstairs). Owen Pick, a 33-year-old computer science teacher, gets suspended from his London college when female students allege sexism in the classroom and misconduct at a Christmas party. While awaiting the results of the school's investigation, Owen a virgin who lives with his aunt begins frequenting rage-filled "incel" web forums. Across the street, 52-year-old Cate Fours a stay-at-home mom to two teenagers grows suspicious of Owen after a masked man starts assaulting local women. Meanwhile, troubled 17-year-old Saffyre Maddox, whom Cate's husband, child psychologist Roan, recently discharged from treatment for self-harm, decides to follow Roan, because, after three years of therapy, she misses his stabilizing presence. To Saffyre's regret, her surveillance reveals that Roan isn't the upstanding man she believed him to be. Though Jewell neatly entwines her protagonists' story lines, a too-pat conclusion fails to gratify. Fans will hope for a future return to form.
