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None of This Is True: A Novel
By Lisa Jewell
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
Author
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nineteen novels, including The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold over 10 million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into twenty-nine languages. Connect with her on Twitter @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook @LisaJewellOfficial.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really liked this book, so much so that I was listening to the audiobook and reading the e-book at the same time, depending on where I was. I finished it in a little over a day! It obviously kept me interested and the characters were well-developed. Characters you really cared about, which is the great hallmark of a story, in my opinion.
The ending was not quite the closure I expected; otherwise I would’ve given it 5 stars. And the performances in the audiobook were really cool, so if you can listen that way, I would recommend it. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is by far the most entertaining audiobook I’ve ever listened to! It was a performance, not just a narration! Like listening to a movie with your eyes closed! The story had me hooked right away I might even listen to it again!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Even though I had a pretty good idea as to what was going on in Josie’s home, I raced through the book to confirm my suspicions. The only downside was the ending was a bit disappointing. The author didn’t wrap up all the loose ends as if she had grown tired of the story.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A chance meeting in a pub brings together Alix Summer, a podcaster who normally interviews successful women, and Josie Fair whose ears prick up at the sound of Alix's birthday celebrations. The two women are birthday twins, exactly the same age and born on the same day. Alix agrees to Josie's request to interview her for a new kind of podcast - 'Hi, I'm Your Birthday Twin' - and it's 'fair' to say that before too long she doesn't know what has hit her. There's a lot more to Josie Fair than meets the eye.I've always loved Lisa Jewell's books but None of This is True has to be one of her best. It's completely and utterly addictive, a metaphorical car crash playing out before my eyes as Josie insinuates her way into Alix's life. Given the title of the book, I was wondering how much to trust Josie's account of events in her life and I loved that about it.I found the format of the book very appealing. Chapters that tell the story day by day and at various times on those days feel like a blow by blow account of events and are interspersed with interviews for a Netflix series which gives the unfolding story a real sense of foreboding with a fabulous touch of the unexpected at the end. I found None of This is True to be a hard to put down book full of fascinating and complex characters. It blew me away with its razor-sharp storyline and Jewell has once again proved what a brilliant author she is.
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