None of This is True: Voted CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024, the addictive #1 Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller: The new addictive ... bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell has built a loyal following with her psychologically sharp thrillers, and this novel, which took home Crime Novel of the Year 2024, shows exactly why readers keep returning to her work. It's a book that gets under your skin quietly, then refuses to leave. The premise is deceptively simple. Alix Summer, a podcaster, meets a woman called Josie Fair at her local pub on her 45th birthday. Josie, it turns out, shares the same birthday. Coincidence enough. But when the two women cross paths again outside Alix's children's school, something shifts. Josie pitches herself as a podcast subject, hinting at a life on the brink of upheaval. Alix is wary, but intrigued enough to agree to a trial interview. What follows is a slow, creeping unravelling. Josie's past is stranger and darker than it first appears, and Alix, despite her instincts, finds herself being drawn in further. Before long, Josie has edged her way not just into Alix's professional life but into her home. The central question, who is Josie Fair, and what has she actually done, tightens like a vice as the pages turn. Fellow authors have been vocal in their praise. Ruth Ware called it 'a pitch-black fever dream of a novel', while Marian Keyes went with a single emphatic word: 'MAGNIFICENT'. Readers have matched that energy, with many reporting they finished it in a single sitting, genuinely shaken by the ending. Jewell writes with a confidence that makes the whole thing feel both grounded and quietly destabilising. It's the kind of thriller where you think you know where you're headed, and then you very much don't. Highly recommended for fans of psychological fiction with real teeth.
- Author: Lisa Jewell
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Mystery
- ISBN: 978-1804940204
- Pages: 416 pages