I’m a great fan of Lisa Jewel and loved her new offering. The dread throughout was great and the slow build tension was fantastic.
And the final chapter was explosive. A fantastic read!

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an arc of 'None of This is True'
Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite authors and this could well be one of her best books ever. I read this book in almost one sitting as I was so totally invested in the main characters and storyline. What a roller coaster of a domestic psychological thriller with just the right amount of twists and turns to keep you wanting more...and more! Highly recommend you put it firmly to the top of your summer reading wishlist.

When there’s a glut of novels written like true crime podcasts or documentaries, it’s easy to become jaded however Lisa Jewell provides a masterclass in how to write using this format but still make it seem fresh and exciting.

It’s no wonder she’s the queen of crime. Thoroughly recommend.

Once again a belter of a book by Lisa Jewell.

It is quite hard to review this book without giving any spoilers but it starts fairly sedately with two women celebrating their birthdays in the same pub/restaurant and after a short conversation it transpires that they are birthday twins having not only the same birthday but being born in the same hospital.

The story then progresses with us learning more about the lives of the two women which couldn’t be more different, saying more than this would ruin the story.

Suffice to say I loved it, read it over 24 hours as I literally couldn’t put it down. The main characters are likeable and horrific in so many ways.

An absolute page turner

Wow what a thrilling and twisty read. I questioned who was telling the truth right until the very end and to be honest I’m still not entirely sure! It’s not often a book can keep me guessing so much. I struggled to put it down as it was such a compelling read. Perfect for holidays!

As a long time reader of Lisa Jewell’s book, this was an auto read for me and I must say it really did have me hooked quickly.
Josie met Alix one night in an up market restaurant and it just happened to be both their birthdays and also being born in the same hospital, Josie declares them the Birthday Twins.
Alix is a well known podcaster and being at the end of a series, an idea of another series forms…how has Josie’s life been…her Birthday Twin…
But little did she know that maybe letting Josie into her life might not have been the best idea.
Well this book has me guessing all the way through and at times I couldn’t stop turning the pages but towards the end it did loose momentum. Which surprised me with the story line it had, it wasn’t enough to disappoint me too much, just wasn’t expecting the slow down.
Still a great read and one I would recommend.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy to read.

Ooh - this is a fabulous book - and as twisty and turny and exciting as you'd expect!

Whilst Alix and Josie might be 'birthday twins' there aren't many similarities in their lives. Alix and her husband Nathan have primary school aged kids, live a seemingly 'insta perfect' life with lots of family and friends around, and whilst Nathan is a commercial property letting agent - Alix has a successful podcast. Josie, on the other hand, lives with her very much older husband and one of their grown up daughters - the other daughter having left home suddenly a few years before. Apart from her little dog, and a job as a seamstress, and a slightly odd obsession with denim, Josie doesn't appear to have much going on in her life.

After initially bumping each other in the pub on their respective 45th birthday - Josie then 'accidentally' bumps into Alix again - and offers herself up as a potential interviewee for Alix's podcast series.

The book is told from both Alix and Josie's points of view, interspersed with recordings of the podcast and then also descriptions of a Netflix series made from the podcast series. You therefore know something 'big' is going to have happened.

The twists and turns keep you speculating as to what this could be - and I'm not sure you'd guess at all - and I'm not going to give any clues - you need to ride the journey for yourself!

I think social media - and particularly podcasts - have given everyone the opportunity to tell ' their truth' - even if it's not necessarily what everyone would consider THE truth. Recollections may vary and all that - and that is very much the vibe of Josie sharing 'her' story. But you also look at the back stories of the other characters and realise that you never really know what's going on behind closed doors and in other people's relationships.

A big thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC - and I'd highly recommend you all pre order it ready for release in July 2023.

4.5 Ahhh I love Lisa Jewell! This was SUCH A GREAT READ!! I DIDNT WANT TO STOP READING IT, I was confused, I was excited, I was HOOKED, I needed to know what happens next! It was chilling, it was dark, it was twisty, it was everything you want in a thriller! You had no idea who to believe, who to trust it was just FANTASTIC

Birthday twins Alix and Josie bump into each other while out celebrating their 45th birthdays, however their lives couldn’t be more different …
Alix is a successful podcaster living an enviable life in London’s suburbs, while Josie is stuck in a flat with her aging husband and recluse of a daughter.

When Josie ‘accidentally’ bumps into Alix again she suggests that she could be the next subject for her podcast, but as she tells her story it soon becomes clear that there is more to her than meets the eye. I enjoyed how the clever title of this one made me question everyone and everything throughout. As you’d expect from such a well loved author it’s a brilliantly written book with really well developed characters, but I must say I was hoping for a few more twists

Another 5 star read from this brilliant author with her great writing and satisfying plotting.
A great holiday page turner with a satisfying number of twists and turns. I enjoyed the podcast and documentary formats and the truth of how many people wanted to tell their own story as part of the central narrative.
I also always love an unreliable narrator, the clue being in the title "none of this is true"
Thank you to netgalley and Random House for an advance copy of this book

Thank you to @netgalley @centurybooksuk for the arc of this book! 

Wow this may be the darkest Lisa Jewell I've read yet! It follows podcaster Alix Summers who crosses paths with an unassuming woman named Josie Fair. They discover they are birthday twins and after Josie discovers Alix is a podcaster she suggests herself as an interesting subject. This is dark! Some very dark and disturbing secrets come out and worryingly soon, Josie starts to become a bit too close for comfort!  Absolutely gripping,  quite foreboding and had a group of us buddy readers questioning so much about the life Josie and her family lived! 

None of this is true is released on 20th July 2023!

A solid four star read. I enjoyed.the deception. Great premise. Well written. Good characters. Page turner. Plenty of suspense to keep me guessing Would definitely read the next novel. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to review it.

This was superb. It has everything you could ask for in a psychological thriller. A fantastic storyline, creepy characters, deaths, murders and lots of twists that make you just want to keep on reading until the very last page.

I’m not going to give anything away, but I promise if you read this you won’t be disappointed.

Another super read from this Author.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this ebook in exchange for my honest review.

This is a good thriller with plenty of twists and turns. I like how the information about Josie’s life is revealed bit by bit and you’re never sure how much to believe. I found the ending quite rushed after a long build up but still really enjoyed the story.

Lisa Jewell's latest novel is her darkest yet, and I loved it!

Keeping the subject matter bang up to date the chief protagonist of this story makes podcasts, Alix Summers is having lunch to celebrate her 45th birthday when she bumps into Josie Fair who is her 'birthday twin!' Right from the opening, it is clear that these two women are quite different people. but Alix ceases the chance to make a quite different type of podcast using Josie as her subject.

Suffice to say, Alix got far more than she expected.

There are clues from the start that this is going to be big, not least because we have extracts from a true-crime documentary titled 'The Birthday Twin.' That eerie feeling just grows and grows as we witness Alix wanting to help Josie, miring herself in a story that is far from straightforward.

This book has dark secrets (and let's not mince our words, outright lies), dysfunctional family and the author is not afraid to turn the obvious on its head,

A great read!

This is one of the best of Lisa Jewells books, I simply adored it.The story was so full of twists that until the end wee not really explained and even then the closing words bring doubts to everything that had been read so far. The characters were so real and therefore so easy to relate to and the London locations and descriptions made me very nostalgic.
A great book that I read very quickly as I just wanted to see what was going to happen next.

Lisa Jewell is back and this has to be the most compelling book I've read of hers!

As a woman, as a feminist, would you believe the story of a survivor? Even if it feels off and goes against your instinct?

As the title suggests, this book is twisty and has a reliable narrator. But how much is she lying about and what's the truth? I flew through the book the book because I wanted to so badly find out everything. This is a gripping suspenseful read that hooked me from the beginning. While the last bit dragged, I might be one of the few people who thought the ending added to the book's quality. It took to from 3 stars to a solid 4 stars and will make this one stand out from the author's other works.

Thanks to Netgalley and Random House UK for the advance readers' copy!

4/5

This is a brilliant psychological thriller.
Josie and Alix are in the same restaurant both celebrating their Birthday. Josie sees Alix in the Ladies, and they realise they are both 45 so are Birthday Twins.
Josie is intrigued by Alix so does some digging and realises she does podcasts.
Josie then ‘bumps’ into Alix and persuades her to do a podcast about the next stage in her life and how they met.
Alix isn’t sure at first but there’s something about Josie that intrigues her so they start to record and Alix learns all about Josie.
I can’t say too much more but this is a great read that has a few surprises in store.
I loved the way the story was told with excerpts from the podcast interspersed into the chapters.
Thanks to Random House UK and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Raced through this in two sittings, I couldn't put it down.
Alix Summer is a podcaster who is out with friends celebrating her 45th birthday.
Josie Fair is also out celebrating her 45th birthday in the same restaurant with her husband.
Josie is fixated with Alix and scours all her social media. She soon finds a photo of her children with the same school uniform as her children's when they were younger.
Josie 'bumps' into Alix outside the school and asks to meet her.
Alix is intrigued by what Josie has to say, so she starts a podcast detailing her life. Josie invigels her way into Alix's life.
Is all that has happened to Josie true?
This is by far my favourite book by Jewell.
The way it's written just has you hanging. You have to keep reading on, wondering what Josie is going to say next. Some of it is truly shocking.
It's a very clever plot.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House uk for the ARC in return for an honest review.

#NoneOfThisIsTrue #NetGalley
A good read.
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life. Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
This was a fun read.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK Cornerstone Century for giving me an advance copy.