The beggining was really very classy, interesting and gripping. The book talks about stalking, deals with sensitive topics, fake allegations against teachers and hints of discussions on patriarchy. The mystery surrounding the characters was well developed but as the story progressed , it somehow lost me, I lost interest in the story, it became a little dragging in style to be particular. It was not the mystery I had expected it to be, it wasn't satisfying. I had very high hopes with this and it did not fullfill them. The geographical location references in the book is definitely not for the global readers of the world.

This one was an interesting story! The pace was average and stayed that way throughout, which kept me engaged with the book throughout rather than flick between really fast or really slow paced.

I liked that there weren’t too many POV. 3 was the perfect amount and just enough to keep me guessing but without being unable to follow what was going on.

The characters we focus on, Saffyre, Owen and Cate are strong and likeable characters. They all have complex histories which lead them to the decisions they make in the present. The commonality between them all though really is their loneliness and need for something more that they’re not quite able to grasp. I also thought that the character development was strong for all three and loved their outcomes!

I think really it was just missing some suspense for me. I didn’t really feel much atmosphere and while the book was really easy to read and kept me engaged, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat rushing through the pages as fast as I could.

Thank you very much to Century, Random House UK and NetGalley for this e-ARC in engage for an honest review!

The first time I have read anything from this author and I thoroughly enjoyed. It was a well written book with a good story line and well developed characters. In my opinion it wasn't full of twists and turns and didn't have me on the edge of my seat but it did leave me wanting to read more.

I can definitely recommend this book and thank you to Netgalley and Random House (Cornerstone) for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

Lisa Jewell is one of my all-time favourite authors, so I was thrilled to get my hands on an early copy of Invisible Girl.

Teenager Saffyre Maddox has been self-harming since a childhood trauma. Unable to confide in her therapist, Roan Fours, she becomes obsessed with him instead. She follows him around, learning where he lives and all about his life with his family, and he doesn't suspect a thing. She's become 'invisible'. Owen Pick lives in the house opposite Roan but feels as though no one ever really 'sees' him. He's drifting through life, feeling more out of step with the world every day, until he wakes up to find his face is splashed all over the newspapers and wishes he really was invisible.

Lisa Jewell is one of those authors you can always rely on to dish up a cracking good story. She even manages to make one of London's swishest places seem sinister with a fright around every dark corner. Her particular skill is to make us really care about her characters, from her most unlikely heroes to the villains (The Family Upstairs). I particularly loved hapless Owen, bumbling from crises to crises, mostly of his own making. I also felt for the middle-aged, middle-class Cate, who discovers her new life in Hampstead is not turning out to be as perfect as she assumed it would be. This is a theme running through the story: appearances are deceptive, be careful who you judge - and trust! Because, like the fox living in the wasteland opposite Cate's house, there are predators walking amongst us, always ready to strike.

Invisible Girl is one of my favourite reads this year. Lisa Jewell's fans will definitely not be disappointed!


Invisible Girl will be published on 6th August 2020.

Thanks to Lisa Jewell and Cornerstone/Century/Random House UK for my copy of this book, which I requested from NetGalley and reviewed voluntarily.

Saffyre Maddox was ten when something terrible happened to her. Despite living with her uncle and being in a good family she needs help but the man she thought would do that let her down.
Owen Pick is 33 years old and he is invisible. He has just left his teaching job because he was told he had acted inappropriately although he can't remember doing so.
And Saffyre is missing and he is being accused of abducting her. But he can't remember.
And what about the family who live across from Owen - are they the cosy family unit that they portray?
Who are the bad people - perhaps its not the people we think fit the type and description?

Another riveting read from Lisa Jewell, why do people judge others by how they dress or look, or even if they are a loner, especially when you don’t know why they are a loner in the first place. Owen Pick is 33 a lecturer, lives with his auntie who doesn’t even like him, his mother died, his father had left and has very little to do with his son. Still a virgin, he doesn’t really know how to socialise with women, so when he is accused by two young students of making unwanted advances at the school Christmas party he is shocked. He doesn’t see he has done anything wrong. He had had a couple of drinks, which because he isn’t a drinker he gets drunk very easily. Then he is accused of more and his life is spiralling out of control.

Saffyre is a young 17 year old girl, who was abused at 10, has lost her mum and her dad, and went to live with her grandad and uncle, but then her grandad died hitting Saffyre hard. She had had counselling for three years but that was for the self harming after she had been abused, and she had never told anyone of the abuse, not even Roan Four who discharged her because he felt she was better, her self harm had stopped. Saffyre starts to follow Roan, watchIng him, and his family, she sees what he gets up to behind his wife’s back. But then on the night of 14th February Saffyre disappears, what happened that night?

Cate Four is married to Roan, they have two children, Georgia and Josh, to the world they look like the perfect family, but are they really?. Who is the valentine’s card to Roan from?

This story is told from the POV of Owen, Saffyre and Cate, jumping back and forth in time, leading up to the 14th February and everything that happened before Saffyre’s disappearance up to a couple of weeks afterwards. Each time you think you have guessed what is going on, something else crops up to make you think again, I think at one stage I suspected everyone to have something to do with Saffyre’s disappearance but each time I was wrong. This is a very well plotted read.

Thank you to #netgalley and #AtriaBooks for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest, fair and unbiased review.

We meet Saffyre a teenage girl who has been seeing a therapist called Roan for a while to help with trauma but she never reveals the true extent of her brutal trauma. Once the therapy sessions draw to an end it is clear Saffyre is not yet ready to let go of Roan. She begins to follow him and discovers a secret he is hiding.

We then flit to the perspective of Roan's wife Cate. Struggling to keep her marriage together after accusing her husband of an affair. Can she ever really trust him again? Can they start over? Is he lying?

Next up is Owen, a teacher who is pulled in for a misconduct meeting over claims he made sexual comments to two teenage girls. Due to him being quiet, abit of a loner and the fact he keeps himself to himself causes others to be wary of him. Along with a few other factors leads him to be a suspect when a girl goes missing. Could he? Would he? Is he capable or just a case of too many bad choices stacking against him?

I loved this, a fast past thriller which has you guessing throughout. Would reccomend!


Even after getting half way through I kept changing my view! Believable indepth complex characters, woven into a great plot. I love how the ending is tied up perfectly! Giving focus to each central character and their journey.

Absolutely brilliant. Lisa Jewell is definitely one of my go to authors so I was delighted to receive an arc of this book. It is a story of dysfunctional families, of apparent weirdos and misfits, basically your usually domestic noir. However this book is so much more than that. It holds a mirror up to society and finds us lacking. I found the subject of incels absolutely fascinating and totally terrifying. I love the way the story is told from different perceptions to be intriguing and enlightening too, it really fleshes out the narrative. We find out why the 'weirdo' is deemed strange in other peoples' eyes but perhaps he/she just has a unique personality or is reacting according to life events they have experienced. I certainly didn't work out where this one was going and there are plenty of twists and turns for those who like a good thriller. I absolutely adored this book.

Love the books this author has written. This one was also a hit. It was heart stopping. A thrill to read. It was well written. I couldn’t put it down once I had started it. Exciting plot. .

As usual in my reviews, I will not rehash the fine details of the plot (plenty of reviews like that out there if that's what you are looking for - personally I don't find that kind of review helpful - after all, why bother to read the book when someone has told you what happens?).

Lisa Jewell's latest novel is as twisty-turny as we've come to expect, and does not disappoint. It switches between viewpoints and time, with different characters in the spotlight - or trying to be invisible as the case may be! There are plenty of red herrings - at times I found myself suspecting just about everyone!

There are dark threads aplenty in this novel - family secrets, lies, secret lives, and "incels" (verrry disturbing indeed) amongst them. The book illustrates how readily our society seems to accept that everyone who doesn't conform to "norms" must be a bad lot - and how having publicly villified an innocent person, nobody actually seems to care what becomes of them.

I was pleased that the character I disliked the most got their come-uppance in the end. Who was it? You'll have to read it and find out for yourself...

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC. All opinions my own.

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I've never read any Lisa Jewell before and did enjoy this. It's a mystery about a missing girl who is involved with a family that on the outside looks perfect but inside has lots of secrets. Who abducted her there are a few suspects that give their version of the night the girl goes missing.
The book brings current events to the forefront such as abusive relationships, child abusive, toxic masculinity and society.
The story is all wrapped up conveniently in the end and that was a bit too tidy but I did like the book and found it an easy read.

First encounter with Lisa Jewel a really original story line, kept me intrigued until the very end. Which was totally surprising and unexpected. Great read, well worth reading

Dark and atmospheric, this is a book which almost suffocates the reader with fear and trepidation. Characters whose ordinariness is extraordinary; showing everyone is multilayered with conflicting aspects of their personalities.

Saffyre is fragile, damaged, but has more power than she realises - the power to change lives around her.

Owen Pick is quiet and withdrawn. Some say creepy.

Then there's the family across the street; in the lovely house, with the lovely lives, so entwined with twists and turns, showing that nothing is as it seems.

This is a great read from Lisa Jewell that keeps the reader enthralled.

The invisible girl by Lisa Jewell
Most of lisa books and have enjoyed them all this one is very well written from the first chapter I was pulled into the story I had to carry on reading it hooked with me straight away I looked all the twists and Turns in the story it was a real page turner the characters are all very strong as you read you can you seem to get to know the characters things are not what they seem in the characters which makes you think about them all Lisa has a very good way of twist the plot the book touches on a few very difficult subject rape abuse things like that is dealt with in a real nice way the characters I was not sure if there's something not quite right with them but I had to keep going all the way through the story what it was what I didn't feel with right with them trust your instinct that I always say some of the characters I was not sure if there's something not quite right with them but I had to keep going all the way through the story what it was what I didn't feel with right with a few of them near the end trust your instinct that I always say that do you was you instinct right my were
I do not want to give the plot away so I will not say too much about it but it is really intriguing read it's very very good Lisa's got a way of drawing you into the store in into the plot you you have to keep reading you have you want to carry on you just engrossed with it brilliant book five stars I recommend to you all

Firstly I would like to thank the author, publisher and Netgalley for my free ARC.

Very clever. All of the characters are invisible, or could be invisible in a city filled with anonymous neighbours.

A series of unfortunate events on an idyllic, twinkle lit landscape, and Owen suddenly filled with self doubt, is a criminal. Equally Saffyre our victim in all senses of the word finds herself suddenly metaphorically as well as physically disappearing into the darkness. By contrast Roan is deliberately hiding in the shadows to conduct his secret life and Cate, his wife, is hiding in his shadow.

I found this tale to be compelling and yet sometimes difficult to read, as I watched the inevitable unfurl and the plot take left and right turns in an extremely satisfying read.

Utterly enjoyable and indulging, I highly recommend The Invisible Girl.

Great book, really enjoyed it and very good story line, hard to know who was a goodie and who was a baddie!
Definitely worth reading.

Lisa Jewell does it again with another cracking good read! I loved this book. It kept me wanting to read whenever I had a chance.


INVISIBLE GIRL: A story of secrets and injustices, and of how we look in the wrong places for the bad people while the real predators walk among us in plain sight.
Thanks to NetGalley and the author for the opportunity to read this amazing book.

My thanks to Netgalley and Random House for a copy of “ Invisible Girl “ for an honest review.

Lisa Jewell is one of my longtime favourite authors , who has successfully altered genre of writing from chic lit to psychological thrillers.
When I began reading this I thought I was going to be a bit disappointed ,as I found it a little hard to get into, luckily the further I got into the book I was hooked, and I think this is possibly one of her best!
When I am asked at work for author recommendations Lisa Jewell is one of my favourites, and this ,well written and suspenseful book does not disappoint.
Highly recommended 5 stars

Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite thriller writers and this book doesn't disappoint. The story surrounds a missing girl and features an array of rich characters who are all connected in some way. Characters are so well drawn and the plot is clever and throws up some fascinating answers to the questions raised. Brilliant, an outstanding psychological thriller.

I really enjoyed this book and found it hard to put down. Lisa Jewell always delivers excellent story lines and I was fascinated to read that she doesn't do any actual research or accept input until her books are initially finished. The characters were really excellent and the details surrounding each of their lives was fascinating. How does Lisa dream up all these little nuances that make up a person and what has happened and will happen in their lives.. Definitely one of the best reads of this year.