Oh I just adore Lisa Jewell and this most recent read hit the nail on the head yet again.

This story really held my attention and I was gripped from start to finish. I will definitely be recommending this read.

Thank you to the author and publisher for the chance to read this advanced copy!

Loved this book. So much intrigue, confusion, twists, and complex characters. It hooked me from page one and I didn't want it to end. And another bonus, this is the first book I've read by Lisa Jewell. Now I can work my way through the whole back catalogue. It'll definitely be my next recommendation at Book Club!

Wow what a fantastic read again from Lisa Jewell. When Josie meets podcaster Alix on a night out and they discover they share the same birthday Josie persuades her to make a podcast about her life but little does she know what she is letting herself in for..Its a really page Turner with many twists, fantastic characters and a brilliant story that grips you from the beginning. As the story unfolds who is telling the truth and will anyone discover what really happened in Josie's life. Highly recommend this book a 5 🌟read

This book is perfect! It's so dark and gritty, with so many layers and threads that are woven together brilliantly. Jewell is a master at this, and it's so admirable. Highly recommended.

When people talk about psychological thrillers, this is the kind of book they are talking about. The storyline and characters live inside your head even after you have closed the book.

Lisa is legendary at keeping her readers on the edges of their seats. Her plot twists come at you just when you think you are starting to get settled into the story. Suddenly you will find yourself racing towards the end of the book, dying to know how the story goes.

I love that the main premise of 'None of this is True' is that it is a podcast. I feel like that is so relevant to so many people today. It also felt so different from anything else I've read too.

Josie was just the perfect, weirdest character. Then we have Alix, our unassuming podcast guru. I won't say anymore so as not to give away any spoilers. But, be sure to pick up your copy when the book is published this July.

Just know, all of this is true.

Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin Random House for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow just wow a dark and very twisty thriller I found it hard to put down. Two strong female characters lead you through this complex tale. Alix summer’s podcast focuses on Josie Fair the mother of a dysfunctional family but how much of her story is true? Another hit from LJ that will keep you gripped till the very end.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

Josie, who’s married with two older children, lives a life of routine. Does pretty much the same thing week in, week out. One night, on her 45th birthday, her and her husband go for dinner, where Josie spots another women celebrating her 45th birthday. Josie bumps into Alix in the toilets and has a conversation about being birthday twins. Alix happens to be a successful podcaster, and lives in a beautiful house, with her husband and children.

After that evening, Josie hunts down Alix in the hope that Alix will giver her air time to record a podcast and reveal her real life, and what others don’t see behind closed doors. Alix thinks this sounds different, but good. But could this opportunity be a blessing or a curse?

This book was absolutely fantastic. It was well written, and the format included dialogue from The Netflix drama “Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin!” based on the acquaintance of Alix and Josie, and their respective lives. This was great, and was a real break from the norm, and added layers of intrigue and mystery. The characters were all excellently written, and they gelled with the story really well. This story had everything you’d want from a psychological, domestic thriller, and more. It was a complete page turner, and I’d highly recommend!!

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is a superbly addictive book! The characters are all meaty and intriguing. The twists are dark and juicy. The writing style is unique and refreshing. I can see this becoming an excellent tv drama! This will be one of my main recommendations for book club! 5 huge glowing stars!

Huge Lisa Jewell fan so I was delighted to get a copy of this to read and review.

I definitely was not disappointed. The concept is different and modern with the story being moved along using podcast and descriptions of a Netflix documentary.

I was hooked straight away, this author knows exactly how to give just enough away to keep you wanting more and what a character Josie is. Just brilliant.

None of this is true by Lisa Jewell is a mesmerising read with so many twists and turns that the reader does have to wonder if really none of this is true.
The Birthday Twins are Alix Summers and Josie Fair who meet on the evening of their 45th birthdays at the local pub.
Josie wants Alix to make a podcast of her life and so it begins but will end with the deaths of three people.
A fascinating and original storyline which just flows and has a unique podcast of different character who all bring together a truly bizarre story.
One of Lisa Jewell’s best books yet. Highly recommend

What a ride! Is there any better feeling that loving a book by an author you haven't read before and then realising there is an extensive back catalogue to work your way through?! Absolutely loved it: so tightly plotted and well-observed; brilliant tension, and masterful characterisation.

Lisa Jewell is a drop-everything-and-this-book-now author for me, and this book is a ride. SO GOOD.

Thanks to Netgalley and the author and publisher for the chance to read this.

Alix Summer and Josie Fair are birthday twins. A fact they discover whilst out for dinner to celebrate their 45th birthday. But that is where the similarity ends. Alix is with a big group of family and friends, while Josie has only her 72 year old husband for company.
Josie research's Alix, finds that she is a podcaster and 'bumps into her'.
Alix is looking for her next subject having finished a series on successful women. When she starts to talk to Josie she thinks she has found the next big thing.
You always know that things are not right with the Fair family. Apart from the age gap between husband and wife there is the daughter who ran away at 16 and the one still at home who never comes out of her room and survives on baby food and pureed meals.
The Summers have their issues too. Nathan, Alix's husband, goes on benders and doesn't come home at night. Alix is considering life without him.
This was a great story. So good that I read it in only two days. Like all of Lisa Jewel's books it grips you and carries you along until the perfect ending. Needless to say, I loved it!

This really played with your mind not knowing what or who to believe. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and when I was not reading it I was thinking about it.

It was very well written and the characters were very believable. I will certainly be recommending this book to friends.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for my ARC for which I have given my unbiased revuew.

I loved Lisa Jewell and have read many of her books and I want to start by saying what another great thriller. I was racing through the pages.

We begin by meeting Alix Summer who is a podcaster out celebrating her birthday. We also meet Josie and Walter who are also out at the same pub for her 45th birthday too and they joke about being birthday twins.

Josie starts listening to pod casts and searching online for information and photos of Alix and her life and convinces herself they must have a deeper connection. Alix also figures out something isn't quite right with Josie but agrees to do a podcast with her and we begin to suspect something strange is going on back at Josie's house.

I loved how I never quite knew who or what to believe. There's so much more I could say but I don't want to leave too many spoilers! I thought it was a great insight for the reader to have from a woman's point of view where they may be the suspect instead of the victim. I also really liked the set out of the book being told at times in a documentary/.podcast style

I will be recommending this book to others 100 percent

I have read all of Lisa Jewell's books and I have to say this one is totally the best yet. I was just blown away by the characters and the story and loved every minute of it. I really didn't want it to end. I envy those who have yet to read it!

With an apt title for her latest offering, Lisa Jewell immerses the reader in the twistiest of psychological thrillers that features Alix Summer, with a popular podcast that looks at women who have turned their lives around after undergoing tough challenges in their lives. Alix is married to Nathan whom she loves, living a comfortable life, with 2 children. It's her 45th birthday and she is celebrating at a local gastropub. Josie Fair happens to be 45 and at the pub too, a totally different woman from Alix, in a place that is not her usual fare, with her significantly older husband, Walter. The women are 'birthday twins' who happen to have even been born in the same hospital.

Later, Josie goes on to suggest herself as a subject for the podcast who wants to radically change her life, Alix eventually comes to conclude that this could work with its potential to appeal to many listeners, but she is little idea just how much she is going to regret agreeing to this. Coming from a dysfunctional family, Josie manoevres and slips her way into Alix's life, relating the unexpected dramas and darkest of secrets that comprise her life, but can she be believed? However, very little of Josie is as it appears in this dark, gripping and chilling narrative, packed with suspense and tension, with some surprising twists, and at the heart of this, some great characters created and developed by Jewell.

This might just be my favourite read from this author! Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

Lisa Jewell’s books are always a good read but I particularly enjoyed this one. I wasn’t sure what to make of it at first but did like how the story unfolded. The characters were deliberately misleading and confusing making it hard to work out who exactly was telling the truth.
Read through netgalley but for an honest review

Deliciously dark, dysfunctional and twisty is how I would sum this book up in a few words.

The story begins in a local pub where two women are both celebrating their 45th birthday, the successful podcaster Alix Summers and the bland and unassuming Josie Fairs. Josie introduces herself to Alix as her Birthday Twin. A few days later they run into each other outside Alix’s children’s school, Josie convinces Alix that she is about to change her life and would make an interesting podcast subject.

The story goes on with Josie revealing some deeply disturbing stories about her marriage and raising her two daughters, one of whom ran away from home age 16 and the elder daughter stays in her bedroom gaming, never leaving.

The Netflix extracts kept the pages turning for me, you knew something awful had happened and that it must have been huge to have gone from a podcast to a Netflix documentary. Josie’s strange behaviour and the disturbing tales she told for the podcast kept me engaged. Then bang, the ending and what an ending it was, I did suspect some of it but other parts were a surprise.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a dark psychological suspense with a dysfunctional character. I could not wait to finish work today so I could finish reading. Please do note that there is a part of the story which some readers may find uncomfortable <spoiler> mentions of grooming </spoiler>

I really enjoyed this book and would like to thank NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow............ I mean just wow.

This book was like running 100 miles an hour and then just crashing off the end all of a sudden and as you are coming around you take it all in and make sense of it all.

It was weird, it was believable - it was fantastic and I read it in two sittings. Things have fallen by the wayside as a result but it was worth it.

Not at all what I expected. Not at all what I thought it was going to be but I was hooked, I was mesmerised and I honestly could not have enjoyed it more