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None of This Is True: A Novel
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Over 1 million copies sold!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
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?
Over 1 million copies sold!
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
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?
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Readers say Lisa Jewell’s "None of This Is True" is a gripping, twisty psychological thriller praised for its addictive pacing, well-developed charact...
Great mystery/thriller. Did an immersive read with the audiobook. Highly recommend. The audio really brings the podcast/docuseries aspect alive.
None Of This Is True just didn’t do it for me. I found the characters pretty bland and not all that engaging and the plot felt predictable, I kept waiting for a twist that never really surprised me. The ending had a cliffhanger, but honestly, I don’t feel the need to follow up on it. Just an overall forgettable read for me. I like some of her other books (Family Upstairs) but wouldn’t recommend this one IMO.
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4.5 Stars, Rounded Up
This book hooked me from the first chapter and I could not put it down. I don’t think I’ve devoured a book this quickly and with such fervor in a long, long time.
The novel follows podcaster Alix Summer. On her 45th birthday a woman named Josie approaches her in a pub bathroom saying, “hi, I’m your birthday twin!” This introductory sentence will eventually become the title of Alix’s true crime podcast with herself at the center of the story.
This is my first book by Lisa Jewell but it won’t be my last. I loved her conversational writing style and it quickly wrapped me up in the story. I thought I knew where things were going from 40% on, but I continued to be shocked right to the very end.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster, NetGalley, and Lisa Jewell for an Advanced Reader Copy of “None of This is True”. Publication date: August 8, 2023.
This book hooked me from the first chapter and I could not put it down. I don’t think I’ve devoured a book this quickly and with such fervor in a long, long time.
The novel follows podcaster Alix Summer. On her 45th birthday a woman named Josie approaches her in a pub bathroom saying, “hi, I’m your birthday twin!” This introductory sentence will eventually become the title of Alix’s true crime podcast with herself at the center of the story.
This is my first book by Lisa Jewell but it won’t be my last. I loved her conversational writing style and it quickly wrapped me up in the story. I thought I knew where things were going from 40% on, but I continued to be shocked right to the very end.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster, NetGalley, and Lisa Jewell for an Advanced Reader Copy of “None of This is True”. Publication date: August 8, 2023.
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