Sometimes I Lie
Amber Reynolds wants you to know three things about her: she's lying in a coma, her husband has fallen out of love with her, and she doesn't always tell the truth. That last point, of course, changes everything. Alice Feeney's debut is the kind of novel that makes you question what you've just read the moment you turn each page. It's unsettling in the best possible way, built on a central voice that's unreliable, oddly sympathetic, and quietly menacing all at once. Short on filler, long on dread. Praised by A. J. Finn as 'marvellous' and described by Clare Mackintosh as 'a bold and original voice', Feeney clearly arrived on the scene with something genuinely distinctive to say, and a sharp, controlled way of saying it. If you've enjoyed psychological thrillers like Behind Closed Doors or The Girl on the Train, you'll find this sits very comfortably in that company, though it has its own peculiar flavour. Worth noting too that a TV adaptation starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Amber is on its way, so now's a fine time to read it before the screen version shapes your imagination for you.
- Author: Alice Feeney
- Publisher: HQ
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-0008225353
- Pages: 384 pages