Not the best Lisa Jewell but a good read all the same. I have read other books which I prefered.
Thanks to NetGalley for an ARC

An excellent book from Lisa Jewell. I have read other books by the same author and I have never been disappointed.
The story is, for me, a little slow to start but when it does it is a superb read.
A complex interwoven story with 3 main characters covered in alternating chapters and several subordinate characters who are all integrated into the story. Trying not to give too much away, the male 'lead' character manages to invoke both sympathy and dislike which in itself is extremely difficult to achieve.
There are a number of events in the book but the key one is exactly what happened on Valentine's Day night in Hampstead. Given one of the main characters has disappeared you spend much of the book wondering if it is a murder or a hiding away.
The ending is very good and there is a final revelation/question in the last page and a half to make you think.
I have to admit but I was hoping for a very later killer twist but with hindsight this was probably impractical in the storyline.
A book not to be missed

I love this author, I have read all her books and this one did not disappoint. Absolutely brilliant story line that kept me hooked from the first page. Five stars from me. Highly recommended.

Many thanks to netgalley and Lisa Jewell for the advanced copy of this book. I agreed to give my unbiased opinion voluntarily.

This story, which essentially revolves around a troubled teen builds beautifully. It draws you in as the story unfolds. A real page turner.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

I discovered Lisa Jewell earlier this year, and devoured 'The Family Upstairs' and 'The House We Grew Up In'. This latest novel did not disappoint. It's got the usual domestic setting, and beautifully-drawn characters, and some great twists and turns that leave you guessing until the last page.

I really like Lisa Jewell's depiction of her characters, and she creates strong female leads in her novels. In this novel, 17-year old Saffyre has problems ("When I was ten years old something really, really bad happened to me. Let's maybe not get into that too deep.") and Cate, in her 40s, also has problems ("He is her husband. He hates her. She knows he does. And it's her fault.") . The men in their lives, a local college teacher, Cate's husband and son, and Saffyre's uncle, provide an often-hapless, sympathetically-painted supporting cast.

This novel deals with the theme of invisibility in its metaphoric sense: the desire to be invisible, the need to be invisible, and the unwanted burden of being invisible. All of the characters are affected by this in some way, and I'm not sure that Saffyre, 'The Invisible Girl', is really the most invisible character in the novel.

This is a great read if you're looking for a thriller with a domestic setting. It's a definite page-turner with good characterisation.

Lisa Jewell has been raved about as an excellent thriller writer so when I saw this book up for review on Netgalley, I had to see what the fuss was about it.

Cate, a stay at home mum, is married to Roan, a child psychologist and they have two children; Georgia and Josh.

At the start of the book, Georgia feels like she is being followed home, so she calls her mum who stays on the phone to her till she's safely inside.

Then a girl goes missing.

Cate knows something is wrong. She knows someone is hiding something from her but she can't put her finger on it.

Told through multiple POV, Jewell does a great job at sharing pieces of the puzzle in a way that keeps you reading 'just one more chapter.'

I had no idea how the story was going to unfold and everytime I thought I had sussed it out, Jewell through a spanner right into the middle of my ideas to show me that I didn't really have any clue at all. In fact, the twists kept coming until the very last page.

Lisa Jewell has written another gripping page turner with Invisible girl.
It's tells the story of missing girl Saffyre from several POVs and shows how others make assumptions of people based on how they look and act. Sometimes these are correct and other times very wrong.
Saffyre is a very troubled teen and the story around her disappearance builds beautifully.
This book was full of angst and drama. I'd highly recommend it.

Another triumph from Lisa Jewell. The story of the Invisible Girl keeps you guessing as the characters develop and reveal themselves, bit by bit. It’s an engrossing book that I read within a few days, despite an 8 hour working day.
It tells of Saffyre, a lonely and reclusive girl who has been affected by an incident that happened some years ago. The story investigates how that has affected her life and the counselling she received.
All the characters are cleverly linked to form the weaving tale of what happened on Valentines night and the far reaching consequences.
As with all her books, Lisa creates interesting people, flawed but not fundamentally evil.
I look forward to her books being published as I know I am in for a great read, an enthralling story and a twist or two. I have not been disappointed. I would highly recommend this book as it’s clever, satisfying and altogether fabulous.

I've been a fan of Lisa Jewell for years so was thrilled to get a copy of Invisible Girl. It's a really well paced intriguing thriller with interesting characters and a plot which keeps you guessing. One of her best!
4.5 stars

The beggining was really very classy, interesting and gripping. The book talks about stalking, deals with sensitive topics, fake allegations against teachers and hints of discussions on patriarchy. The mystery surrounding the characters was well developed but as the story progressed , it somehow lost me, I lost interest in the story, it became a little dragging in style to be particular. It was not the mystery I had expected it to be, it wasn't satisfying. I had very high hopes with this and it did not fullfill them. The geographical location references in the book is definitely not for the global readers of the world.

This one was an interesting story! The pace was average and stayed that way throughout, which kept me engaged with the book throughout rather than flick between really fast or really slow paced.

I liked that there weren’t too many POV. 3 was the perfect amount and just enough to keep me guessing but without being unable to follow what was going on.

The characters we focus on, Saffyre, Owen and Cate are strong and likeable characters. They all have complex histories which lead them to the decisions they make in the present. The commonality between them all though really is their loneliness and need for something more that they’re not quite able to grasp. I also thought that the character development was strong for all three and loved their outcomes!

I think really it was just missing some suspense for me. I didn’t really feel much atmosphere and while the book was really easy to read and kept me engaged, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat rushing through the pages as fast as I could.

Thank you very much to Century, Random House UK and NetGalley for this e-ARC in engage for an honest review!

The first time I have read anything from this author and I thoroughly enjoyed. It was a well written book with a good story line and well developed characters. In my opinion it wasn't full of twists and turns and didn't have me on the edge of my seat but it did leave me wanting to read more.

I can definitely recommend this book and thank you to Netgalley and Random House (Cornerstone) for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

Lisa Jewell is one of my all-time favourite authors, so I was thrilled to get my hands on an early copy of Invisible Girl.

Teenager Saffyre Maddox has been self-harming since a childhood trauma. Unable to confide in her therapist, Roan Fours, she becomes obsessed with him instead. She follows him around, learning where he lives and all about his life with his family, and he doesn't suspect a thing. She's become 'invisible'. Owen Pick lives in the house opposite Roan but feels as though no one ever really 'sees' him. He's drifting through life, feeling more out of step with the world every day, until he wakes up to find his face is splashed all over the newspapers and wishes he really was invisible.

Lisa Jewell is one of those authors you can always rely on to dish up a cracking good story. She even manages to make one of London's swishest places seem sinister with a fright around every dark corner. Her particular skill is to make us really care about her characters, from her most unlikely heroes to the villains (The Family Upstairs). I particularly loved hapless Owen, bumbling from crises to crises, mostly of his own making. I also felt for the middle-aged, middle-class Cate, who discovers her new life in Hampstead is not turning out to be as perfect as she assumed it would be. This is a theme running through the story: appearances are deceptive, be careful who you judge - and trust! Because, like the fox living in the wasteland opposite Cate's house, there are predators walking amongst us, always ready to strike.

Invisible Girl is one of my favourite reads this year. Lisa Jewell's fans will definitely not be disappointed!


Invisible Girl will be published on 6th August 2020.

Thanks to Lisa Jewell and Cornerstone/Century/Random House UK for my copy of this book, which I requested from NetGalley and reviewed voluntarily.

Saffyre Maddox was ten when something terrible happened to her. Despite living with her uncle and being in a good family she needs help but the man she thought would do that let her down.
Owen Pick is 33 years old and he is invisible. He has just left his teaching job because he was told he had acted inappropriately although he can't remember doing so.
And Saffyre is missing and he is being accused of abducting her. But he can't remember.
And what about the family who live across from Owen - are they the cosy family unit that they portray?
Who are the bad people - perhaps its not the people we think fit the type and description?

Another riveting read from Lisa Jewell, why do people judge others by how they dress or look, or even if they are a loner, especially when you don’t know why they are a loner in the first place. Owen Pick is 33 a lecturer, lives with his auntie who doesn’t even like him, his mother died, his father had left and has very little to do with his son. Still a virgin, he doesn’t really know how to socialise with women, so when he is accused by two young students of making unwanted advances at the school Christmas party he is shocked. He doesn’t see he has done anything wrong. He had had a couple of drinks, which because he isn’t a drinker he gets drunk very easily. Then he is accused of more and his life is spiralling out of control.

Saffyre is a young 17 year old girl, who was abused at 10, has lost her mum and her dad, and went to live with her grandad and uncle, but then her grandad died hitting Saffyre hard. She had had counselling for three years but that was for the self harming after she had been abused, and she had never told anyone of the abuse, not even Roan Four who discharged her because he felt she was better, her self harm had stopped. Saffyre starts to follow Roan, watchIng him, and his family, she sees what he gets up to behind his wife’s back. But then on the night of 14th February Saffyre disappears, what happened that night?

Cate Four is married to Roan, they have two children, Georgia and Josh, to the world they look like the perfect family, but are they really?. Who is the valentine’s card to Roan from?

This story is told from the POV of Owen, Saffyre and Cate, jumping back and forth in time, leading up to the 14th February and everything that happened before Saffyre’s disappearance up to a couple of weeks afterwards. Each time you think you have guessed what is going on, something else crops up to make you think again, I think at one stage I suspected everyone to have something to do with Saffyre’s disappearance but each time I was wrong. This is a very well plotted read.

Thank you to #netgalley and #AtriaBooks for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest, fair and unbiased review.

We meet Saffyre a teenage girl who has been seeing a therapist called Roan for a while to help with trauma but she never reveals the true extent of her brutal trauma. Once the therapy sessions draw to an end it is clear Saffyre is not yet ready to let go of Roan. She begins to follow him and discovers a secret he is hiding.

We then flit to the perspective of Roan's wife Cate. Struggling to keep her marriage together after accusing her husband of an affair. Can she ever really trust him again? Can they start over? Is he lying?

Next up is Owen, a teacher who is pulled in for a misconduct meeting over claims he made sexual comments to two teenage girls. Due to him being quiet, abit of a loner and the fact he keeps himself to himself causes others to be wary of him. Along with a few other factors leads him to be a suspect when a girl goes missing. Could he? Would he? Is he capable or just a case of too many bad choices stacking against him?

I loved this, a fast past thriller which has you guessing throughout. Would reccomend!


Even after getting half way through I kept changing my view! Believable indepth complex characters, woven into a great plot. I love how the ending is tied up perfectly! Giving focus to each central character and their journey.

Absolutely brilliant. Lisa Jewell is definitely one of my go to authors so I was delighted to receive an arc of this book. It is a story of dysfunctional families, of apparent weirdos and misfits, basically your usually domestic noir. However this book is so much more than that. It holds a mirror up to society and finds us lacking. I found the subject of incels absolutely fascinating and totally terrifying. I love the way the story is told from different perceptions to be intriguing and enlightening too, it really fleshes out the narrative. We find out why the 'weirdo' is deemed strange in other peoples' eyes but perhaps he/she just has a unique personality or is reacting according to life events they have experienced. I certainly didn't work out where this one was going and there are plenty of twists and turns for those who like a good thriller. I absolutely adored this book.

Love the books this author has written. This one was also a hit. It was heart stopping. A thrill to read. It was well written. I couldn’t put it down once I had started it. Exciting plot. .

As usual in my reviews, I will not rehash the fine details of the plot (plenty of reviews like that out there if that's what you are looking for - personally I don't find that kind of review helpful - after all, why bother to read the book when someone has told you what happens?).

Lisa Jewell's latest novel is as twisty-turny as we've come to expect, and does not disappoint. It switches between viewpoints and time, with different characters in the spotlight - or trying to be invisible as the case may be! There are plenty of red herrings - at times I found myself suspecting just about everyone!

There are dark threads aplenty in this novel - family secrets, lies, secret lives, and "incels" (verrry disturbing indeed) amongst them. The book illustrates how readily our society seems to accept that everyone who doesn't conform to "norms" must be a bad lot - and how having publicly villified an innocent person, nobody actually seems to care what becomes of them.

I was pleased that the character I disliked the most got their come-uppance in the end. Who was it? You'll have to read it and find out for yourself...

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC. All opinions my own.

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I've never read any Lisa Jewell before and did enjoy this. It's a mystery about a missing girl who is involved with a family that on the outside looks perfect but inside has lots of secrets. Who abducted her there are a few suspects that give their version of the night the girl goes missing.
The book brings current events to the forefront such as abusive relationships, child abusive, toxic masculinity and society.
The story is all wrapped up conveniently in the end and that was a bit too tidy but I did like the book and found it an easy read.