A story of secrets that will keep you reading into the night...Invisible Girl is full of twists and turns right to the end ! A great read !

When Saffyre Maddox was ten something terrible happened and she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. The therapist she sees hasn’t “fixed” her so she starts waiting around near his house, following him and discovering his secrets. She is the invisible girl.

Owen Pick is invisible too. He's thirty-three years old and he's never had a girlfriend. He is an outsider and when Saffyre disappears, he is accused of her kidnap and possible murder. His world is turned upside down. Other women have been attacked in London - is he guilty of all the crimes?

The reader is introduced to a number of characters and we are not sure who is telling the truth, who is keeping secrets,

A very well written book, it keeps you guessing and I couldn’t wait to finish it, simply to find out if Owen is guilty, or is he just being condemned for being different?

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.

I really enjoyed this book from Lisa Jewell. I really wasn’t sure what was going to happen and although it did take me a little while to get into it, once I did I couldn’t stop reading and I finished it in a couple of days. The characters were really interesting and it really showed that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover!

This was a dark read but a great distraction in lockdown! I wasn't sure where it was going to lead when I started out and that made the reading ride all the more engaging. I had not read much about incels at all which made this rather terrifying! Having lived in some of the areas of north London described in this book made it all the more enjoyable to visualise the area but I think Lisa does a brilliant job anyway of giving a sense of time and place. I'm not sure if I'd like to hang out with any of these characters IRL but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy spending time with them on the page! I did not guess all the twists and turns at all and enjoyed how some characters lived up to their hoped potential while others definitely let you down, as happens. Don't want to spoil the ending, but that final page will sit with me for a while! Will be featuring this on our upcoming Bestsellers podcast and have interviewed Lisa about it already.

One of Lisa Jewell's better thrillers, probably second only to Then She Was Gone. Set in Hampstead and Kilburn with.a believable cast of characters, this twisty page-turner places family at its heart with powerful results. One of the most compelling parts was the fearless exploration of online incel culture. Definitely one I'll be recommending.

I love Lisa Jewell's writing and subjects but I really didn't warm to this book. Nothing to do with quality and style - it was the subject matter which I found too depressing. Think it was more of a good book at the wrong time but I didn't warm to the characters and found it delve into darker and darker areas.

An intriguing book. I had no idea what the book was about when I requested it. Really enjoyed it but felt the ending let it down.

Not my usual book but I loved it. I read it in two hours . Dark at times and so many twists and turns. You had no idea where it would go or end. You felt for Saffyre but she got there. So many strong characters.Brilliant

Wow, I think this has to be her best yet! I have loved all of her books and relished the move to thrillers - like an intricate clockwork model she sets up her charcters then they begin to work in harmony. The dialogue is pitch perfect, spoken and interior monologue. I originally had Owen down as an unreliable narrator but that’s too simple for a Lisa Jewell novel, as all her characters prove unreliable in their own way. I ended up very much hoping Owen wasn’t as he was portrayed but will resist spoilers about whether he is or he isn’t!
There are beautiful descriptions of urban nature, juxtaposed with explorations of the insidious effects of toxic masculinity on women, girls and men. This is such a subtly feminist novel and I look forward to promoting it in feminist groups I belong to on publication. There are several heroes in the pages but they hide their capes well.
At times it reminded me of the writing of Angela Carter - those wolves certainly still do lurk in every guise. The final twist was one that had skulked round the back of my mind right from the beginning and is a wonderful illustration of the importance of trusting your instincts..
Thank you so much for the opportunity to review an advance copy. I will be sure to promote it to just about everyone I can think of when it is published.

I am a huge fan of Lisa Jewell and have read a few of her previous novels which I have given five star reviews. As usual her writing style and character depiction in Invisible Girl is excellent.

The book centres around missing Saffyre Maddox a young girl who has a lot of issues stemming from early childhood. Roan,her therapist and his family are living in the area where she was last seen. Owen , a teacher, another resident in the area has been arrested in connection with her disappearance.

A lovely easy read with insights into Cate and Roan"s crumbling relationship in the midst of all the drama happening around them.

While i really enjoyed this i didn't feel it matched up to the author's other books.

Lisa Jewell does it again!

A very clever mystery, filled to the brim with twists and tuns.

There were many moments where I thought I'd figured it all out, but boy was I wrong.

And that ending, OMG.

I feel like we need a follow up book as a certain part of that story is definitely far from over.

Really enjoyed this fast paced thriller about an "Invisible Girl" called Saffyre. There were so many twists and a lot of red herrings along the way that kept me guessing right up until the end.

Ultimately, it's a book about judgements and how it's easy to blame someone who is a bit odd and doesn't fit in with society. Whilst the real offenders are often hiding in plain sight.

I loved this line about speaking out about the traumas that we think we can't.

"It felt like a belt had been squeezed around my gut, and with every word I spoke, it was loosened a bit

I enjoyed this psychological thriller, I really did, but on closer reflection some of it was just more than slightly implausible. The friendly fox, for one. That said, I was really interested in the focus on online hate groups (incel communities in particular) and how easily people can become indoctrinated, and it’s always nice to read a thriller from a writer that, despite dealing with violence against women, treats them with care and respect.

Breathtakingly brilliant, a plot that twists and turns and concludes in a fantastic way. Highly recommended, Jewell doing what Jewell does best.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 stars

This is an enjoyable twisty book, told from a couple of the characters perspectives.

Short punchy chapters keep you engaged and you are never really sure who is up to what until near the end.

Even at the end you question a couple of the threads, was everything as you think.....?

Cate and Roan have had their problems in the past, as every married couple does. But Cate is beginning to have doubts. May be she had been right about Roan having an affair.
Owen is in his 30s and, as they say, still looking for love. He can’t seem to connect with women, despite being a teacher and fairly good looking. He lives with his aunt, Tessie, and it just happens to be opposite where Cate and Roan are renting a flat.
Saffyre is 17, has been seeing Roan in his role as a therapist for an incident that happened when she was 10. He discharged her, but she is still drawn to see him, even if this means almost stalking him.

This book is told from the point of Cate, Owen and Saffyre, over the same couple of weeks. I found this a bit confusing at times, not being quite sure what stage of the story we were at. It’s a very thought provoking book, covering a couple of uncomfortable subjects, child sexual abuse and fantasies about rape. This book, as you would expect from this author, is very well written, researched and planned out but for me it was a bit of a slow burner. However, the story was enough to keep me reading to the more than satisfactory ending.

Thanks to netgalley and the publishers for an ARC in return for an honest review.

Invisible Girl is the latest utterly brilliant psychological thriller by one of the queens of the genre Lisa Jewell. It's a chilling,thought provoking tale of judgement, suspicion, deception, revenge and the repercussions that spur of the moment decisions can have on a person's life.

On the surface it appears that Cate has a perfect life, she is married to handsome child psychologist Roan and they have two teenagers who she adores Georgia and Josh. But appearances can be deceptive and Cate's marriage isn't as happy or stable as it appears. A year ago she did something that she bitterly regrets and even now, Roan refuses to forgive her for.

Owen Pick is a thirty three year old loner who lives with his aunt,has never had a girlfriend and has just been suspended from his teaching job. He is a sad,lonely character who Georgia thinks is creepy due to a inccident that happened when she was walking home one evening.

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen years old and has some serious issues due to something terrible that happened to her when she was ten years old. Saffyre was once Roan's patient and now spends her nights camping out on the wasteland near his home. She has been watching him for a while and knows all his secrets.

Three characters whose lives are going to become entwined when Saffyre goes missing and Cate and Owen find themselves plunged into their own personal nightmares and once the truth is revealed will discover that their lives are never going to be the same again.

The chapters of this totally enthralling thriller alternated between Cate, Owen and Saffyre and flipped back and forth in time between the present and the past. I loved Cate, she reminded me so much of myself due to her anxiety and paranoia over her marriage and I could fully empathise with her conflicting emotions. I also loved her interactions with her children who were both quite likeable,realistic characters, which made a refreshing change from the obnoxious brats that usually appear in thrillers. The chapters that were set in the past were told from Saffyre's perspective and took the reader through the events leading up to her disappearance. I thought that Saffyre (I love that name) was a fantastic character and very likeable, I loved her interactions her the fox and Josh. As for Owen, did he have something to do with Saffyre's disappearance as the police suspected or was he just a innocent loner who had been found guilty in a trial.by the media.

I really really loved this captivating thriller and I loved the fox silhouettes that were scattered throughout the book. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to put it down and would have read it in one sitting if my old eyes had let me. The story held my attention throughout and had me frantically turning the pages and as for the ending...wow, talk about a mind blowing twist. Lisa Jewell is a very talented author who's thrillers are consistently well written and unputdownable and Invisible Girl is no exception. Worth far more than five stars and very very highly recommended.

Saffyre Maddox is nowhere to be found, but has she been murdered? and does her disappearance have anything to do with her ex-therapist and his family, their oddball neighbour Owen, and a guy from her past?

Lisa Jewell books never fail to impress and Invisible Girl is no exception to that! This book follows the perspective of three different characters, each with their own richly developed personalities and quirks. Jewell also expertly navigates her way through the sensitive subjects of therapy and date rape with sensitivity and consideration. Highly Recommended.

I really enjoyed the story and the authors way of writing . Entertaining and twisted , everything I love In a book !!I would like to read more by this author !!

Owen is a single man in his thirties, very awkward around women and finds himself suspended for alleged sexual intimidation at work. Saffyre has just finished some treatment with Roan her psychologist but she hasn't told him everything.
Roan and his wife Cate love opposite Owen but they don't interact with each other. When Saffyre disappears, Owen is the main suspect, but did he do it?
The book is quite in depth and in some parts I struggled to keep up with who was doing what and had been where. Despite this, I did enjoy the book, and there were some nice twists and turns to take us to a decent ending.