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None of This is True: The new addictive psychological thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Family Upstairs

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Two women living two totally different and separate lives are brought together in a pub on the same night because they share the same birthday.

Josie is adamant to involve in Alix’s life, creating coincidences to bump into her around her children’s schoolyard. While podcaster Alix Summers is out with her husband to celebrate her 45th, after the big song, a woman named Josie approaches the table and informs her that she is her TRUE birthday twin---down to the year. After all, isn’t that why we love unrealistic horror movies, because we can watch but still feel detached from it all? At the same time, themes include pedophilia, alcoholism, and physical and emotional abuse, so it is not a fun read. This book is no different, and the multiple povs really give us insight into the various narrators inner thoughts and feelings while the tension ramps up around them.After much debating, Alix thinks she would make an interesting subject so she decides to give it a go. None of this is true is an enthralling psychological thriller that captivates you from the very first page until the gripping conclusion. Anyway still entertaining but felt like there's a truly great version of this story in there that the author just couldn't get out. Matters become dark when Josie turns up on her doorstep bloodied and bruised, her version of events bringing into question the nature of truth and who is manipulating whom. Peeling apart the layers of her backstory, discovering her childhood, her role as a mother, and the lies she has told, was pure heart-pounding fun!

I would like to have seen the threads tied up nicely or differently, and then this would have been a clear 5 star book. A group soon follows behind her, other similarly aged people; someone is holding a bouquet of flowers; another carries a selection of posh gift bags. There were a few holes in the narrative and a few times that I thought the story could have been a bit tighter and less repetitive.She loves that Nathan thinks she’s pretty, but she also wishes that Nathan could see the beauty in less conventionally attractive women too. None of This is True by Lisa Jewell is a masterfully crafted work of psychological fiction- the kind of dark, edgy and suspenseful story that makes Lisa Jewell one of my favorite authors in this genre.

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