This is a brilliant psychological thriller that really makes you think.
We start to learn about Cate, Roan and their children and also about Saffyre from chapters from their perspective.
Saffyre is being treated by psychotherapist Roan but when he tells her the sessions have finished, she can’t let go.
She starts to follow him and watch his house at night.
When she disappears on Valentine’s night an investigation is carried out on Roan’s street.
He’s oblivious to her following him but as the story unravels we learn that someone knew she was sleeping in the derelict house opposite Roan’s before she disappeared.
Owen who lives on the same street with his aunt is seen as an odd character and is soon under suspicion for Saffyre’s disappearance - but will the Police believe he’s innocent?
This is a great read that has lots of different elements that really make you think.
Thanks to Penguin Random House UK and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest, independent review.

"A story of secrets and injustices, and of how we look in the wrong places for the bad people while the real predators walk among us in plain sight."

Saffyre Maddox is missing. She disappeared on Valentine's night opposite the home of Owen Pick. Owen is invisible to those around him: 30-something year old, never had a girlfriend, no friends.

But the house Saffyre disappeared in front of is the home of her former psychologist, his wife and their two teenaged children. Something terrible happened to Saffyre when she was ten. The psychologist was supposed to cure her, but didn't. She hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows.

The novel is exciting and fast paced, with a sensitively handled story of abuse and rape. We learn that one of the characters, Owen, is incel (involuntary celibate), and this was displayed in a fascinatingly creepy way.

I would say this story is more of a psychological drama, rather than a psychological thriller, with a lot of the characters having some weird aspects of their personalities. This lead to me putting most characters in the frame for Saffrye's disappearance! The story is told through three characters' POVs, which helps the reader get to know them further, and only adds to the confusion as to who is responsible. I love the lonely, tormented, but strong, character of Saffrye.

The book is very thought provoking, with lots of tension, shocks and suspense.

A great book, thanks netgalley and thanks lisa Jewell for this wonderful thriller.
One of the main characters is Saffyre Maddox whose life has not been easy at, and had her childhood stolen by older boy at an early age, and has grown up to hate and self harm.
Another character is Owen a gentle and reserved man, whose days seem to go from bad to worse and then ends up in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Really enjoyed this book, here’s to the next one please.

Lisa Jewell never fails to keep my interest right from the very beginning and let me tell you she has done it once again!

Saffyre Maddox a ten year old self harming after a traumatic experience. Cate Roan wife of Roan, Saffyre's therapist and Owen Pick, the odd, creepy 33 old neighbour who lives with his aunt across the street from the Four’s family all intertwine in this book in an unimaginable way.

After years of providing therapy to Saffyre, Roan ends the sessions believing Saffyre has healed and no longer requires them. Saffyre is not convinced this is a good thing and can’t seem to let go and takes up stalking Roan. Watching his every move and his house where he lives with Cate and their two children Joshua and Georgia.
In previous years.

Cate suspected Roan of having an affair. She was convinced and needed to prove it That’s when she had read Saffyre's confidential patient file.
There’s a predator sexually assaulting woman in the normally quiet streets of Hampstead so when 17 year old Saffyre disappears and the last place she is seen is across from the Roan’s house, neighbour Owen is soon the number one suspect. With incriminating pieces of evidence stitching together its hard not to think he’s guilty of something.

But Cate just can’t seem to comprehend the coincidence of Saffyre going missing right out front of their house and why is her son, Josh acting out of character? Then there is her husband Roan's running clothes that she found stashed in Joshua’s wardrobe along with a balaclava.

Don’t judge a book by its cover is an old but good saying that you will need to keep in mind while reading this one! It will have you thinking you figured it out but then you’ll be caught off guard with a twist that makes you reconsider your thoughts.

This was a quick read for me with short chapters and told from multiple POV's that keep the pace flowing nicely. Definitely be prepared to not put this one down because the suspense will keep you absorbed until the very end!

I'm a huge Lisa Jewell fan but this one wasn't for me and I wish it had came with some trigger warnings.

I’d like to thank Random House UK, Cornerstone and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Invisible Girl’ written by Lisa Jewell in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen and lives with her Uncle Aaron. By day she’s a hard-working A-grade student but at night she prefers to keep away from people, sleep under the stars and become invisible. People think Owen Pick is creepy, he teaches computer science at the local college and is a misfit finding it hard to communicate with women, but when Saffyre disappears he’s arrested for her abduction. How can Owen prove his innocence when he’s unable to remember what he was doing the night she disappeared?

‘Invisible Girl’s is a gripping psychological thriller with an intricately woven plot, convincing characters, suspense, drama and twists and turns. I like the characters of Saffyre who’s tough but kind-hearted, Josh who she becomes friends with and Owen who’s in his thirties and has never had a girlfriend as he finds it difficult to socialise. From a slow beginning the tempo increased, I could feel the tension building the further I got into the story until it was impossible to stop reading. This is an excellent novel which I thoroughly enjoyed and can wholeheartedly recommend.

After a slow start, where I wondered if this Lisa Jewell story would envelop me as much as some of her previous works, I found myself surprisingly intrigued. Looking back I can recognise that the lives of the characters and scenes needed embedding in my mind so that the events that followed (rapidly) could run at pace.
Cate and Roan, Georgia and
Josh - an ‘ordinary’ but displaced family are central to the story. Along with Owen Pick, a troubled young man sadly living with an aging and unpleasant aunt - Tessie. Then you have Saffyre, a young girl badly affected by a series of events within her youth. Altogether an eclectic groups of characters.
Jewell is an expert at creating a ‘normality’ and at the same time drip feeding the reader with a glimmer of issues and problems and a hint of what is to come.
After about half-way I was totally emotionally invested in the story.
The effective / realistic characterisation changes as your understanding of their back -stories develops and I found I developed a real empathy for specific central characters despite some unpleasant quirkiness.
Along the way possible scenarios are raised along with many questions which you are left trying to rapidly piece together before the story reveals answers to you.
I found the ending was really satisfying but still with a little sting to leave you wondering.

Chilling and thrilling. I couldn't put this one down. So many thanks layers and reveals, and the odd red herring. I enjoyed the different characters and was fascinated by the terrifying insight into the world of incels, there are some scary people out there! Probably her best novel yet.

Lisa Jewell has nailed it again! This book was scary in that it looks at how easily someone's life could be ruined by a combination of bad decisions, bad luck and misconceptions.

I would say this is more of a domestic thriller than psychological. Saffyre has been carrying trauma with her for a long time and is out for revenge. Her counsellor Roan and his wife Cate move to a new area when suddenly women start being attacked in broad daylight. Opposite them lives Owen, who is his in thirties, lives with his aunt (who doesn't particularly like him) and has no friends.

There is a lot going on and it's interesting keeping track of the different relationships. It also touches on the 'incel' community which is super interesting and something I'd only really heard about on Reddit and the like. It was great seeing it being brought to light in a novel - grim indeed!

What an absolute stunning read!! I read this book over three days whilst I should have been working and sleeping! Loved the way in which the story was written from each characters perception showing how their lives intertwined before revealing the true twist at the end.

The chapters were not too long which allowed me to follow the story with ease. The plot took off right from the start and took me on a rollercoaster of twists and turns before revealing the truth. I guessed the perpetrator pretty early on in the story and was positively surprised to guess I was correct!!

Lisa Jewell is one of my favourite authors and hasn't disappointed with this stunner of a book.

Much needed distraction from life's dramas and a definite recommendation for 2020.

Well done Miss Jewell!!

I have always enjoyed Lisa Jewell's books, but unfortunately I did not enjoy this book as much as I have with her previous books.
This is well written and has many twists and turns. However I found the some of the subjects and themes were too dark and difficult for me and I struggled to read parts of it
I am looking forward to reading Lisa Jewell's next book. Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC.

Lisa's newer style of writing family drama thrllers is such a good fit as she still develops really complex and interesting characters and has a skill for weaving a very gripping plot together.
This book started slowly for me but I knew hints where going to mean things would speed up once he foundations where laid and I wasn't wrong. Exploring really hard topics such as sexism, privilege, trauma, toxic masculinity, incels etc which were handled and explored well.
Overall this was a good read.

Thanks to Netgally for my ARC

I was excited to recieve this as I've read Jewell before and I know what kinds of books she writes.

This is a mystery that just keeps you guessing.

Saffrye. Everything that happens is centred around Saffyre. I did get a bit overwhelmed at times with all the sub plots, and it had my head whirling. I just couldn't seem to focus. Even though, I enjoyed the sub plots, I think the expression "Less is more" is absolutely vital here. I would have liked to concentrate more on the main characters, and go more in depth here. Saffyre has a secret that she can't talk about. When she finally does, I felt a bit deflated, I thought it was going to be more dramatic, especially with the build up behind it.

Even though this did keep me guessing, there were a few misses and things not explained which lost the thread for me. I felt things could have been explained a bit more and gone into more depth.

Interesting read. It held my attention well. I won't hesitate to pick up more from Jewell

Love the author and this book too. Liked all the twist and turns and the mysteries the characters bring to the story. I love how you are kept guessing to the end,

This was my first Lisa Jewell book and certainly won’t be my last. With a new author, it always seems to take a few chapters to align with the writer’s pace; Invisible Girl took me several chapters and then I was hooked.
Invisible Girl is loaded with twists and turns that will leave you wondering who is guilty and who is innocent. All the characters are damaged, to some degree, and it’s hard not to point the mental finger at each one of them.
The story is told from multiple view and time points which, over the course of the book, create theories and answers in quick succession. I’m pleased to say that I didn’t spoil the ending for myself by guessing who the villain was. Possibly because, on many levels, there was more than one villain.
The conclusion and the wrapping up chapters tie up all the loose ends and, for me, it was good to know ‘what happened next’.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

No one ever really gets a happy ending.

We start off with Saffyre, shes broken and he was supposed to fix her. When she was young something terrible happened to her and she’s never been the same. She looses her mum then her grandma then sadly her grandfather leading her in her young uncles care.

Her uncle gets help and they meet Roan her therapist. He helps her, then deems her fine and the therapy ends. She’s not healed and she falls deeper and deeper into her depression until the she’s invisible to the world.

Owen hasn’t been dealt the best cards in life. He too is invisible, his mother died his father abandoned him and his Aunty hates him. 33 never had a girlfriend and has no social life. Unfortunately that makes him the prime suspect in a growing number of sexual abuse attacks in their neighbourhood.

Then the unthinkable happens Saffyre goes missing and the whole worlds convicts Owen of murder.

“A story of secrets and injustices, and of how we look in the wrong places for the bad people while the real predators walk among us in plain sight.”

I’m ashamed to say this is my first book of Lisa’s books, what I can tell you it’s not going to be my last!!

Yet again Lisa Jewell delivers another fantastic, thrilling read. A totally jaw dropping read that kept me guessing until the end, Lisa is a pure genius and her books go from strength to strength.

5 incredibly well earned stars!

I read my first Lisa Jewell book 3 years ago and couldn't understand why I hadn't read any before. This is only my second and again, I can't understand why I haven't read more. It's not that there are big twists and turns in her books like so many others and which actually gets quite boring after a while. Lisa Jewell manages to inter weave several strands without throwing too much at it. The plots are believable, the characters are real and in this one she highlights the prejudices of ordinary people towards anyone who is different.

I won't rehash the plot, the blurb does that, I'll just say that if you want a well written, entertaining read then you can't do better.

There are only a handful of authors who books I will read from the get-go, without reading the blurb or synopsis, and Lisa Jewell is one of those. I have been devouring books by Lisa Jewell for years and Invisible Girl is no exception.
“My superpower was invisibility” says Saffye Maddox and that belief lets her go places and watch people; assuming that people won’t see her.
Invisible Girl is about the relationships Saffye makes on her journey and how they interact with each other. I was hooked from page one and didn’t want the book to end.
Thank you, Lisa Jewell.

This is only the second book by Lisa Jewell that I have read now but I a quickly coming to love the almost understated way in which she draws you into her novels, catching you unawares with a slow building tension and characters who, whilst not instantly likeable in all cases, get under your skin and who you find yourself willingly going on the particular journey with. This was definitely the case with The Invisible Girl, a story which almost like it's protagonist is quiet, unassuming, at times something of an enigma, but completely unrelenting in its mission to uncover a dark truth. Can you tell I loved this.

This is. the story of Saffyre, a young girl who has already lost so much in her short life but mysteriously disappears one evening, leaving her older brother bereft. Saffyre is a complex and troubled teen who has been having counselling following the death of her family when she was younger, but how much of this past feeds into the mystery of her disappearance is unclear. At least to begin with. This is a complex tale which looks at both Saffyre's past and the events which shaped her into the. girl, or rather young woman, that she is today and the weeks leading up to her disappearance, told in her own voice making the story all the more powerful and poignant at times as a result. I really liked SAffyre. Lis Jewell has, in her, created a character who is vulnerable and, yes, slightly damaged, but who also has a core strength that it is clear others often overlook. She may be the odd girl, the one others easily dismiss or forget, the epitome of the 'invisible girl' - present but unseen by anyone other. than her brother - but her invisibility, her rather unique nature, proves to be her greatest asset in this complex and sometimes dark tale.

In contrast to Saffyre there is one other key character who inhabits this strange and dark world that Lisa Jewell has created. Equally as misunderstood as Saffyre, Owen Pick is far from invisible. In fact his very, how shall I put this, unique nature makes his stand out like a sore thumb, particularly in a community which is seeing a rise in sexual assaults on young women. He is awkward, his character is far from what the majority would consider normal and Lisa Jewell plays this perfectly, using the who notion that different means wrong that is far too prevalent in modern society. I found myself feeling kind of sorry for Owen, even if he really is creepy as hell at times and his actions often leave a lot to be desired. But, quite like Saffyre, he has a troubled past but where one is seen as a victim, her is seen as a suspect. Stereotyping perhaps, but it has an undeniable feeling of authenticity about it.

There is a strong undercurrent of unease from the very first page. Tat feeling that something awful is going to happen that only grows stronger the further we go into the book and the more we learn about Saffyre's character and what she has seen and experienced. The backstory of the assaults feeds into the narrative perfectly, playing out in quite a surprising way. It is fair to say that whilst the lions share of the story focuses on Saffyre and Owen, the two misfits in a very 'normal' community, there are a raft of characters whose behaviour will shock, surprise and often incense you as a reader. I often found myself having quite a visceral reaction to some of the characters, particularly one of Owen's neighbours, Cate, who just happened to be married to Saffyre's therapist Roan. For a woman who has had her own share of strange 'episodes' it seems, she had me biting my tongue trying not to shout 'wind your neck in love' at my kindle. Well meaning or just nosy? You read and decide for yourself. As for her daughter the drama queen ... Don't even get me started.

Another tense, but perfectly paced psychological thriller that kept me completely glued to the story and desperate to find out what really happened to Saffyre. And as for the ending ... well let us just say that everyone finally seemed to get what they truly deserved. Definitely recommended.