Title: None Of This Is True

Author: Lisa Jewell

Genre: Suspense

Main Characters:

• Alix Summers – crime podcaster and middle aged wife and mum
• Josie Fair – middle aged women married to much older man with a story to tell

Summary:

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers 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 cam’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has unveiled 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.

Verdict:

This book was riveting in the beginning, but possibly a little too dark or disturbing for me. I couldn’t get my head or heart around the *trigger in the book and the ending was too abrupt for me. I live Lisa Jewell but this wasn’t my favourite read of hers…

Have you read it? What did you think?

Any other good book recommendations that you would share?

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