None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

Main Characters

• Josie Fair
• Walter Fair
• Alix Summer
• Nathan Summer
• Erin & Roxy Fair

Publisher’s Summary

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.

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The book “None of This is True” by Lisa Jewell sparked a range of emotions in me. On one hand, I found it to be a compelling and capturing read, reminiscent of the gripping narrative found in “Verity” by Colleen Hoover, one of my all-time favorite books. However, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of frustration towards the character Alex for repeatedly ignoring her gut instincts. It seemed that everything could have been avoided if she had only listened to her intuition. I found myself drawn into the suspense and constantly questioning what was real and what was not, adding a thrilling element to the story. I can’t shake the feeling that there is more to be uncovered, and I eagerly anticipate a potential series to delve deeper into the unresolved elements of the plot.

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When she doesn’t like the reality of things, she finds a reality she prefers

― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

But I suppose the problem is that people often don’t realize that their lives are changing for the better until after the event, when they stop to look back.

― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True