Yay I love Jewell's writing. I found this very easy to race through. As usual, her dialogue and inner-thoughts are spot on and her character voices distinct. This is a clever thriller - a nice mystery but with heart.

I was a little sad when Lisa Jewell started writing in a different genre as I was such a huge fan of her earlier books but I think she is one of the most successful authors to cross over genres that I can think of. I told so many people about her last book, The Family Upstairs and I was so pleased when I discovered that she had a new one coming out. Invisible Girl is an excellent psychological thriller that feels terrifyingly realistic. Jewell takes your average domestic situation and turns it into a nightmare.
Saffyre Maddox has had a difficult life for such a young girl, something awful happened when she was just 10 years old and she cannot let it go. She spent three years in therapy, only to end up feeling abandoned by her therapist Roan Fours. She starts following Roan and his family who are currently renting a flat in leafy Hampstead. Initially she does it just to feel some kind of connection to him but then she begins to notice other things. The woman who Roan takes to lunch who definitely isn’t his wife; his lonely son smoking weed on the building site by the house and the strange man who lives opposite the Fours. Saffyre is fine while she’s invisible but what happens when someone notices her?
When Saffyre goes missing, attention is focused on the Fours home as their connection to the missing girl is revealed. Witnesses have seen Saffyre hanging around and Owen Pick, the strange neighbour, with many secrets of his own, was the last to see her alive.
Invisible Girl packs a real punch, it felt so relevant and realistic, from the characters to the brilliantly paced story line. Jewell looks at the outsiders in society and how they are treated, family secrets, trust, rape, sexual abuse, grooming and so much more.
The story is told from either Saffyre, Owen or Cate’s (Roan’s Wife) perspective; we can see how they are all set up to draw different conclusions and how they all react when the truth is finally revealed. I thought that Jewell tied the characters together well, at first I wasn’t sure if it was too much of a coincidence but then it all clicked.
Saffyre Maddox is an interesting one, she is vulnerable yet fierce. She has been badly hurt yet and is frightened yet she is still prepared to face those fears in order to get justice for herself and other women around her.
I can highly recommend Invisible Girl, it is gritty, realistic and dark, you won’t be disappointed.

This gripping book, following the disappearance of a teenage girl, takes you through multiple characters' viewpoints at different points in time. The strength of it, I felt, was the exposition of peoples' true characters. It's easy to make assumptions about the creepy guy, the troubled teen and the seemingly perfect family, but their true backstories are well explored, changing your perceptions.

I am a big fan of Lisa Jewell and I have read most of her books. Invisible Girl is by far the best. Well-written believable characters, plenty of twists and turns and a brilliant ending. A very easy 5 stars.

The Fours family Roan, Cate and their children Georgia and Josh move into temporary accomodation whilst their family home is being renovated.
Amongst the large houses opposite ( mostly divided into flats) is a barren plot earmarked for development but long left untouched.
Cate Fours has had problems with her husbands fidelity in the past but is trying to trust him again.
The story is told through the eyes of Cate , Saffyre Maddox (a girl, who was previously treated by Roan) and a neighbour Owen Pick.
Owen is a lonely young man with few friends, suspended from his job as a teacher for alleged sexual misconduct.
When a spate of sexual attacks start to happen in the area he finds himself under suspicion.
As the story progresses the lives of these characters become entwined, Saffyre becomes fixated on Roan following him around and discovering his secrets.
When Saffyre goes missing a ready made group of suspects are there to choose from.
None of whom are totally innocent and all have something to hide.
This is a creepy psycholgical thriller that ramps up the tension along the way.
Certainly plenty twists to keep you guessing, I loved it.
Thanks to Netgalley and Atria books for the chance to read this as an ARC.

I've never read a Lisa Jewell book before. I like a fast paced book and this isn't. It's a slow boil. Well written, thought provoking, but just not for me.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher I read a free advance copy of the book. This review is voluntary, honest and my own opinion.

I was so excited to get a copy of this as I love Lisa Jewell books but sadly this one just isn’t a new favourite. I found it a bit too much of a slow burner and didn’t really connect with any of the characters which never helps. I’m not saying it’s a bad book, still very readable, just not as excellent as her others!

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and author for this ARC.

Lisa Jewell is a new author to me and I thought the premise of the book looked good. I enjoyed this book, it had mostly likeable and believable characters and a good plot with quite a few surprising twists. I had empathy for Saffyre and what she had been through and how it affected her. I thought the book started off slowly, and found the more I read the more I was drawn into it. It held my attention right until the end, but it didn’t wow me. I liked the authors writing style, and that the story was told from different characters perspectives and was easy to follow. It jumped from past to present times very easily. Overall, a good read - I wouldn’t call it a thriller - it was more of a mystery book to me. I will look at the authors books and would recommend this one.

Lisa Jewell is a great writer, but this has to be her best.
Saffyre Maddox is 17, and troubled
From the age of 10, following a traumatic assault, she was seeing a therapist, Roan Fours. But after three years, he declared her ready to leave the sessions.
Cate is mum of two teenagers and married to Roan. But Cate has a lot going on, not least is the fear of a number of attacks happening in the neighbourhood.
Jewell brings the threads together for a satisfying end. Except there's an unexpected twist.
Great read and I love the character of Saffyre. You really root for her.

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
I really enjoyed reading this book, the story is told from multiple perspectives, so you really get to know each character. You are into the storyline from the beginning, and left waiting right to the end to figure it all out. I love a book that makes you form multiple theories as you go along, and this book certainly had my brain in overdrive. If you are a fan of this author I think you will enjoy this book.

It isn't every day you get such an interesting, plausible story. Of special note was the dialogue between the characters. Pretty much bang on and with some elements of humour too. Was Owen Pick so named because he was picked on I wonder? Seeing both sides of how he was perceived and more or less at the same time was refreshing, usually it's in flip flop chapters. Poor Owen how quickly he succumbed to institutional life, even looking forward to the food! Saffyre showed a great strength of character and fortitude in her life following her ordeal as a youngster and hopefully now, she has slain the ghosts of her past.
I did feel the author was trying too hard to push some messages across which detracted from my reading experience. Furthermore (the balaclava just about saved it) the ending was a bit twee.

This book is about Saffyre, she is a 17 year old girl living with her Uncle. She is trying to recover from a childhood trauma she was released from therapy before she could reveal to her therapist what the trauma was. Cate is married to Roan a child psychologist and they have two teenage children. Cate is not exactly happy in her marriage but she chooses to bury her head rather than confront what is actually going on. They are living in temporary accommodation whilst work is being carried out on their house, Owen is a 33 year old unmarried college tutor who lives in one room in his aunts house. He lives opposite Cate. Cate and her family think that there is something quite strange about him. All these characters have secrets. When Saffyre goes missing on Valentine’s night there are a few suspects.

This is a story that is told from several viewpoints, Saffyre, Cate & Owen’s. I think that this is described as a domestic thriller but to me it mainly read like a contemporary with a mystery thrown in. There were a few creepy bits to this story which I really loved. The opening scene in the book really drew me in.This is not fast paced at all but it really did keep me trying to guess and turning those pages,

When you wear a hood, you're invisible.

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something really, really bad happened to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.

Cate Fours is Roan's wife and they have a daughter, Georgia, who's outgoing and outspoken, as well as a son, Josh, who's the reverse. She and Roan have just come through a bad patch, which Cate accepts was entirely her fault, and she's hoping that they can keep the family together. They're currently in a rented flat whilst repairs are done to their house in Kilburn: Hampstead was meant to be a bit of an adventure. Unfortunately, it looks as though it might have become a bit of a risk. Coming home from school one evening, Georgia is followed by someone who doesn't exactly threaten her, but whom she finds 'creepy' and 'weird'. Georgia's friend, Tilly Krasniqi, told the family that she'd been attacked on the street, but then retracted the story. There have been other sexual attacks in the area recently. It's worrying.

Owen Pick teaches computer science to 16-to-18-year olds at Ealing Tertiary College. He thought all was going well until two of his students, Monique and Maisy, accused him of inappropriate behaviour at the Christmas party. Owen denied it but was suspended, pending an investigation. Staying at home isn't pleasant: since his mother's death some fifteen years ago he's been living with his aunt at a property on the opposite side of the road to Cate and Roan Fours. It's a strange setup - his aunt won't even let him into her sitting room and he's often cold. It's going to get a lot worse though.

Sometimes you start a book and before you get to the bottom of the first page you know that you're in safe hands and that's how it was with Invisible Girl. The plotting is exquisite: there's an elegant contrast between Saffyre and Owen. Both have suffered childhood traumas. Both live with a dead parent's sibling. Both are celibate but the difference is that Saffyre's celibacy is a conscious decision whilst Owen comes to the conclusion that he's an 'incel', an involuntary celibate, although he always seems to lack some of the more extreme characteristics associated with the name. He lacks empathy with women and is guilty of seeing them as 'women' rather than as people but when would he have learned to do otherwise? It's thought-provoking and I spent quite a bit of time thinking about how I viewed men and women who are not exactly like me.

I had a suspicion about who the baddy was, but I certainly missed out on a lot of the reasoning and there were twists I didn't see coming. I lost about a day and a half to this book and I don't regret a minute of it. It was my first Lisa Jewell, but it certainly won't be my last and I'm already thinking that I might indulge myself in some audiobooks.

Really good read. Would recommend to friends and family. I could sympathise with characters (important for any fiction novel!) and looked forward to picking it up and reading the next few chapters! Interesting plot line and a good ending. Will look out for more novels by the author. Thank you.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this gripping novel

oh my word where to start with this one....

its a book of red herrings and misdirection....

a young girl is missing
a man is under arrest for it

another man is having an affair but what he doesnt know is that his son has found out....

its a disjointed affair but all those threads come together to make you not put this book down and you want to find out what has happened to the missing girl...you want to know about her life and what has been happening

brilliantly written and captivating and the ending aint bad either....another brilliant book by this author

I've read every one of Lisa Jewell's books since Ralph's Party and always look forward to a new one coming out! As with all of her books there are fascinating and well-drawn characters to enjoy and an intriguing plot which isn't resolved until the very end. It was interesting to have at least one of the main characters (Owen) being a bit dysfunctional - more interesting than perfect characters with perfect lives. A great holiday read.

A departure from Jewell’s regular writing but still gripping nonetheless! I always enjoy her books and this was no exception.

This is another riveting thriller by this outstanding author that had me completely immersed. The character of the title is a teenaged girl who while struggling to cope with the distress and lasting effects of an awful incident when younger begins counselling to help. However, her psychologist is very self-absorbed and she is discharged without having had the chance to purge the horrendous incident that began her self-harming and self-loathing. She begins to stalk him, hiding in the shadows opposite his home, uncovering his deceit and lies. Then she disappears, a man who lives opposite the psychologist is arrested, everything points to him being guilty, but is he? There are so many stories and sub-plots to unravel in this book, I wanted to finish it to find out answers but at the same time did not want it to end. Fabulous!

I never fail to be astounded by the extent to which Lisa Jewell keeps knocking it out of the park. She really is one of the best writers alive (and also in the world, ever). Her writing is utterly addictive; the characters so richly drawn that one can almost reach out and touch them, her plotting impeccable. I cannot fault this author, or this book. "Invisible Girl" is testament to the fact that Jewell keeps her finger firmly on the pulse of a rapidly changing, and often incomprehensible, world. This is a writer who consistently delivers to the highest standards. If you haven't yet discovered her work, drop everything and get stuck in immediately. Perhaps my favourite thing about Lisa Jewell is that (in my humble opinion) her writing defies genre labels and pigeonholes. Stunning stuff!
PS It was a male friend who recommended Lisa Jewell to me, many years ago, so don't think for a minute that her books are just for women. In fact, men absolutely should read "Invisible Girl".

Saffyre is missing where is she? Is she alive ? No one knows. Or do they?
There is a huge house owned by a strange old lady called Tillie and her weird nephew called Clive or is it Owen?
Across the road in their temporary home is a family the dad is a child psychologist who actually knew Saffyre as a client she worked with him for 3 years to try and help her with her issues
They are the Roans mum dad and Georgia and josh totally normal family of course or are they?
Someone knows what has happened to this young girl where are they ?