Wow an excellent story that has you gripped from the very beginning. Great family thriller full of secrets. Just when you think you know where the story is going it takes you in a different direction.
Great book, highly recommend

The Fall is the kind of thriller that gets under your skin and I enjoyed it.
Twins Kate and Beth have just turned forty and the family hold a surprise party in one of the barns at the family farm. From the outside it seems they are a really close knit tight family unit but all is not as it seems under the surface,
The following afternoon the twins’ daughters Caily and Tegan miss a dress rehearsal for the school performance of La La Land and Caily ends up in a coma following a fall from a bridge into a rocky river below. What has happened?
The whole family are torn apart as the police investigation into Caily’s fall reveals that this was not an accident and the secrets soon start to be revealed.

The farm provides a really good, atmospheric backdrop and there’s a building sense of claustrophobia and despair.
Danger levels are also rising – will more people get hurt?
There’s a lot that goes on within this book but I won’t give away any spoilers.
I felt this was an immersive page turner but the dialogue was sometimes a little too drawn out for me which stopped it from being as fast paced which is a shame as it would have amped up the drama even more. This is why it’s four stars not five from me.

With thanks to NetGalley and HQ for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a fantastic written story I loved all the twists and turns it was like being on a rollercoaster I didn't want this story too end but such an amazing ending I never guessed I love a good thriller that keeps me on my

Wow - pushes all the ‘right’ buttons with professional skill - page-turning and adept - maybe characters can be cartoonish in that some are thin representations of real people. I’ve always wanted to read Jensen, having heard her name before, and I was not let down. Perfect for hits genre .. .

A good read, tense and gripping with some really good twists and turns. I really enjoyed it and can't wait to read more from the author.

I've read several of Louise Jensons books and they never disappoint.
Not the most original premise but the story telling and pace kept me reading late into the night.
Packed full of twists and new information is drip fed to you throughout making you question your first theories.

“Twists and turns abound in Louise Jensen’s latest thriller as family ties unravel under the weight of secrets and suspicion. In ‘The Fall,’ a teenage girl’s tragic accident plunges a closely-knit family into turmoil, raising questions of betrayal and deception. Set against the backdrop of a failing farm, Jensen masterfully navigates between past and present, slowly unraveling the truth behind the fall. While some may find the narrative structure slightly disjointed, the shocking conclusion delivers a powerful punch. Though not as gripping as previous works, ‘The Fall’ remains a compelling read, earning it a solid three stars.”

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This author never fails you already know it’s gonna be good cannot wait for the next one

A brilliant read
Full of tension and suspence
With plenty of twists and turns
Will keep you turning the pages
Thanks NetGalley

'The Fall' is a very gripping read that ultimately centres around a family. Beth and Kate are twins and their daughters; Caily and Tegan are just as close. When Caily has a fall that leaves her in a coma, secrets are outed that have been long buried. Can the family recover from the devastation?
I thought this was an incredible read and I was hooked from the beginning. I instantly connected with the family which only helped keep my interest in the read. I found them likeable and most of all human so yes they make mistakes but it was easy to see how they got themselves in different situations. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them and learning about their different personalities.
The plot is fast paced and kept my interest all along. Jensen throws a lot of different factors into the plot and I liked seeing them come together and the secrets being revealed was intense and kept the sense of anticipation going.
'The Fall' is a thrilling read with a realistic, likeable family at its heart. I thoroughly enjoyed this read.
Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for an advance copy.

I read it quire a while ago but just realised I haven't posted a review.
It was a good book but not as enjoyable as the previous one by the author. It was twisty and unpredictable but a bit too many things happening.
Maybe it was not the best time for me to read it. I'll definitely read the next book by Louise Jensen.

When Caily ends up in hospital after 'falling' from a bridge everyone wants to find out what really happened but she's in a coma so she can't tell who was with her on the bridge, who is the guilty person when all of her family and friends seem to have something to hide. There were new twists and turns in every chapter right up until the very end.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Heart stopping, edge of your seat kind of read. The thriller genre at it's finest. I'll certainly be picking up more of Louises' work!

A great book with lots of twists and turns. Touching on illnesses and struggles for farmers after Brexit, this was a good read.

Really, properly involving and compelling. But a bit too busy to be perfect (4.5 stars)

It's not that I felt bitter or anything, but I can still clearly remember the final part of my first driving test that I took at the age of 17. If I tell you that the route back to the test centre was via the high street of a market town, on a hot day during the school holidays, you can probably imagine the scene. Not only was the traffic stop-start, but pedestrians of all ages - some of whom, to my adolescent eyes, didn't appear to be wearing very much - seemed to be crossing the road between the slow-moving cars at every opportunity they could get. But as we reached the end of the high street and the road widened, I was actually feeling quite good. I thought that I had coped with the conditions rather well.

So the disappointment that I felt after we had returned to the car park and the examiner said "I'm sorry, you haven't passed ..." was possibly the most crushing and overwhelming that I had experienced in my life up to that point. It turned out that I had failed for staying in the middle of the road at the top of the high street, when I should have moved over to the left in preparation for it widening into two lanes. Even though (a) the lanes weren't marked and (b) I had only done the same thing as every other vehicle on the road.

You could perhaps call it karma that, less than a week later, the examiner was himself involved in a car crash that put him off work for several weeks. But for me, it was just plain annoying. Because he was one of only two examiners that worked at the centre, and his absence instantly created a huge backlog that prevented me from re-taking my test for a further three months.

But I digress. My point is that, when I returned home after that first test, my mum didn't need to be told the outcome. She said she had felt that crushing disappointment at the same time I did, and knew that there could only be one reason for it.

The ability of two individuals to communicate seemigly telepathically isn't really the main subject of Louise Jensen's latest thriller: The Fall. I do wonder though if this was pivotal in my enjoying the book as much as I did. Because even though Louise plays it relatively safe in having the communication take place between identical twins, which I understand is quite commonplace, some parts of the story do rely quite heavily on the reader being prepared to believe that one sister is able to sense when the other needs her help. Accept that and these parts of the book are brilliant. But if you don't, they can only be perceived as weaknesses.

Thankfully, given my own experience - which, honestly, I had forgotten about until now - I was happy to accept and absorb this, which left me to get not so much hooked on the rest of the book as unable to move due to having been tied down from a whole load of different angles. Louise has taken an event of which none of us can help but be aware - the cost of living crisis - and made it personal and real. Kate and her husband Matt are farmers - an industry that was struggling even before the soaring inflation started. The farm has been in Kate's family for generations and her parents still live on it. Which means the pressure on Matt to ensure that the farm survives as a business is immense - if he fails, it won't just be himself and his wife that he's letting down. Then there's Kate's twin sister Beth, who is a single parent and struggling to find employment that will even allow her to put food on the table.

So for the family to put all of their troubles behind them just for one night and celebrate Kate and Beth's 40th birthdays is entirely understandable and natural. But what happens next is enough to make all of them seem irrelevant. Matt and Kate's daughter Caily is found unconscious beneath a bridge. Did she fall or was she pushed? The police believe the latter. But could Beth's daughter and Caily's best friend Tegan, who Kate and Matt Kate loved like a daughter, really have been responsible? And will Caily ever wake up from her coma and remember what really happened?

Hopefully, you're now starting to see what I mean about being hooked. And I haven't even got to what for me was the best bit yet. I hope it's not a spoiler to say that some chapters are told by a narrator, who we already know to be unreliable. And yet his/her story is told so convincingly that I was absolutely ready to believe every word. It's only later that we are given an entirely different version of events and realise just how little that character actually knew, as opposed to having made up in their own mind. It's masterful. Actually, it's very nearly Rebecca by Daphne due Maurier masterful, and I can give it no greater praise than that.

I'd really love to be able to end this review right here, but I'm afraid that I did also have a few small problems. Firstly, I didn't think the character of Travis quite worked. I get why he needed to feature, but I found the actions he took unconvincing and the letter in which he explains them even less so. Secondly, parts of the story rely perhaps a little too heavily on the decisions made by a very sympathetic policeman, who seems more swayed by his feelings towards another character than he really should be. Louise cleverly turns this point into a subject for discussion by book clubs at the end of the novel, but to he honest I'd still have preferred to have not needed to discuss it. And finally, it was only after finishing the book that I realised just how many other issues have been shoehorned in, many of which I haven't even mentioned in this review. I just wondered if they all really needed to feature, and whether some could have waited for another book.

One other thing. I know it makes me sound like a spoilt brat to criticise a free copy of a book, particularly given that I've taken so long to review it after receiving it. But the digital ARC from Netgalley contains some quite bad formatting errors which, despite the author's best efforts made the book harder to read than it should have been. I don't doubt that these were corrected before the book went on sale, but I do think that if Bookouture can provide ARC's that are complete in all but status, Harper Collins HQ need to make a bit more of an effort.

So, to summarise. The Fall is not perfect. But the parts of it that work well - which make up at least 90% of the total - are absolutely fantastic. I loved it.

My thanks to the Netgalley and Harper Collins HQ for the digital ARC of this book, which was published on 27th April 2023. My sincere apologies that my review is so late, but I can only hope that - much like my driving test which, thankfully, I passed second time around - it was worth the wait. I will publish it on Goodreads, Amazon and my social media pages.

Kate and her twin sister, Beth, have always been closed, so are their daughters. The day after celebrating the sisters’ birthday everyone is looking forward to Caily and Tegan performance, which could be life changing for Caily.
But everything changes where her mom, Kate, gets a call from the police informing her Caily had a bad fall and she is at the hospital.
Was Caily pushed? And why?


This is a gripping book which touches on topics as dementia, the struggle of farmers after brexit.

This book will keep you on your toes. An allegedly close family are celebrating Kate and Beth's birthday when their daughters go missing. When one of them ends up in a coma under circumstances that don't add up, everything begins to unravel. Secrets bubble to the surface and their so called perfect lives start to unravel. A plot that will draw you in, turning each page to discover the next bombshell.

Compelling and fast paced this boom is gripping right from the very start. Full of twists and turns I was kept guessing all the way through. I loved it

A symphony of suspense and revelation, this thriller crescendos to an unforgettable finale that will leave you speechless.

The Fall is a well-paced thriller following the lives of members of one family where their various secrets and troubles unravel alongside each other. The story pulls in the reader from the first page, as twin sisters Beth and Kate are led to their 40th birthday celebrations.

It's clear from the start that Kate certainly is uncomfortable, and obviously it isn't immediately clear why. The sisters end up relaxing. But there's something wrong with their parents too, who seem uncomfortable. And various other oddities make the reader wonder what's going on beneath the surface.

There are LOTS of twists to this story, and Jensen writes things in such a way to give the reader a certain impression of what's going on, only to show they've got completely the wrong impression some pages later. This makes for a good read, although after a while there's a slight risk that you know what she's doing and so are looking out for the 'false' narratives.

I especially liked the bits that involved the twins' teenage daughters. The descriptions of the pressures they face at school and with friends, and how family life looks in their eyes, I thought was very strong. One of the girls, Cailey, is in a coma after apparently falling from a bridge, but we don't know if she was pushed and if so, who by. The mystery of this leads to various secrets from a number of family members coming to the surface.

I also quite liked the fact that, without giving too much away, Jensen sets up some potentially nasty things in certain characters and then shows how people have ended up with a mistaken impression of them, and they aren't at all as bad as you may have imagined. I found this quite heartening.

Some of the chapters are very, very short - meaning we end up with over 100 chapters! This can feel strange given that it's not very common, although maybe it adds to a sense of pace and urgency.

The Fall is a very easy read and definitely has enough going on to keep the reader's interest to the end.