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.

Very gripping, I loved the podcast/series element added to it. I couldn’t stop reading it until I knew what was going on, although I’m still not sure giving the open ending, which I love with Lisa Jewell!

I absolutely loved this book and could not put it down. Such a clever revealing of things with small subtle twists and turns throughout.
It’s taken the idea of a podcast and kind of turned it into a book and a Netflix series at the same time.
I thought the characters were excellent and I’m still left wondering if none of it is true, or is it, who to believe? If I could give this 6 stars then I would.

Most of this book is set over a six-week period, with new chapters working through day after day, which was a really interesting way to write it. It showed just how quickly someone's life can change.

I've only relatively recently discovered Lisa Jewell's books. I knew of her but hadn't read any, but got sucked into the My Family Upstairs series, and I instantly loved them. And I'm slowly collecting her others. And this one is exactly how I expected it to be. It's slick and crisp and thrilling and what I want now from a Lisa Jewell book.

I have only ever listened to one podcast episode, even though there's hundreds I'm interested in. And it probably wasn't the point of this book, but it's definitely made me want to dive in to some. But maybe I'll leave the true crime ones for later.

Josie was an...uncomfortable character. Brilliantly created, but just so. It's hard to explain. She's an awful person, that much is obvious pretty quickly. She's very unusual, disquieting, uneasy, and just made me feel so uncomfortable. And Walter. I liked him by the end, but, I won't go into too much detail as I don't want to spoil it, but there was definitely this creepy aura about him. To begin with, I wasn't too sure of Alix. There was something hiding behind the perfect surface that I was wary of, but she probably became my favourite out of everyone.

It doesn't go full in straight away. It's a slow drip-feeding story. Gives you enough to latch onto but holds enough back to keep you hooked. And then by the time you realise you're caught, BAM! It twists and turns and goes full steam ahead and you're sat there wide eyed with your hand over your mouth, wanting to take the time o process it all but desperate to see how it ends.

For me, it felt more about the complexities of humanity more than the thrill of the plot. Yes, there's clearly a story happening - a stinking good one as well - but it's this development of the two main women that I found so intoxicating.

It's not written in a "normal" linear way. The present scenes are. But she's also added podcast notes, TV scripts, interviews etc. And at first I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It took a little while to figure out but in hindsight, I don't think the story could have been told any other way. It needs this complexity, this disconnection. It's so visual, and she's able to drip you little clues, so the story is partially building in your head and you're eager for more, more, more, and it's simply perfect.

It's a real...I don't want to swear...a head-fudge, if you will. You're left wondering who or what to believe, who or what to trust, trying to read through the lines. It's utterly fabulous.

As with each Lisa Jewell book I read, I long for the wait until the next one to be short. I just wish there was a new one to start every day, as my reading life is so much more enriched by her work.

Lisa Jewell knocks it out of the park!

Alix is a podcaster with a successful series focused on inspiring woman. Josie is a part time seamstress. Both woman turn 45 on the same day and just happen to be in the same restraunt celebrating.

Hi, I'm your birthday twin!

This reads like a podcast but also like a true crime netflix series. It's so addictive that you just have to know what happens next. Highly recommend!

This is LIsa Jewell at the absolute height of her powers. Do not open this book if you have any other plans for the day because it's extremely hard to put down, the characters leap off the page and the plot is gripping, enjoyable and plausible.

Nobody does foreboding like Lisa Jewell,. Another deeply creepy thriller in which you know something terrible is coming yet you can’t put it down. Five stars.

Recently I read the two part series for the Family Upstairs and just like that this book is fast paced and quite frankly hard to put down. Judge this book by the title 100% as none of this is true had me guessing so much until the very end (I was proud to guess a couple of aspects correctly!).

This psychological thriller focuses on Josie and Alix (birthday twins) whilst they record a tell all podcast for Alix’s renowned channel. This book has a lot of twists and turns and I was finding my own paranoia towards both the main characters and their partners - who do I trust!? If you want a must read thriller this summer this is your book!

The characters book have such different personalities and at different times I warmed to one more than the other - and I still feel way too lucky to have received this ARC.

Spoiler - I hated Walter throughout the book and when I realised Jodie’s issues I felt very sorry for him and wanted to read again with a different perspective!