A twisty-turny brilliant book. I changed my mind about the characters a dozen times! Great pace, believable scenarios and an unexpected ending! Read it in 2 sittings!

Thank you for the ARC.

Saffyre is a young girl with problems. She sees a therapist, Roan, who discharges her after several years of therapy without really having helped her. She becomes obsessed with him and follows him, finding out his secrets. In so doing she meets Owen, Roan's neighbour. Owen is a sad character, unable to relate to women and who after being suspended from his job for sexually inappropriate behaviour turns to the internet in his rage. Meanwhile there are sexual attacks on women in the area. Who is behind them.

This is a complex tale, very readable but uncomfortable at times. I wasn't totally convinced by some of the events but overall I'd recommend it. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

It was compelling but I can’t really say I was all that surprised by it. It was readable but a bit predictable in places.

Another brilliant book by Lisa Jewell.
I devoured it in one sitting it is twisty and turney with believable characters that you feel you know and empathise with by the end of the book.
If you have enjoyed the previous few books by Ms Jewell this one will not disappoint.
I think she has really found her genre and writes her books beautifully.

Firstly, massive thanks to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for sending an ARC of the novel ahead of its August 6th publication date. Having read every one of Lisa Jewell's @lisajewelluk novels I say the same thing every year... "It can't be better than her last one!" but each year Jewell writes an original and captivating story with a cast of characters who come alive on each passing page. "Invisible Girl" starts as a meandering tour through the lives of our three main characters who act as the narrators to the story: Cate Fours, a married mother living in Hampstead, Owen Pick, thirty-three year old college lecturer suspended for sexual misconduct and Saffyre Maddox, the seventeen year old 'invisible girl' and former patient of the husband of Cate Fours. All characters, as seemingly independent as they are, are in fact intrinsically linked by an event on Valentine's night. What is particularly clever, as well as how the narrative develops in bringing all characters together, is how each of the characters can thematically be seen as invisible. Even the other characters such as Alicia, Tessie, Josh and Georgia can all be seen to have a certain invisibility around them; be it Tessie's secret living environment, hidden from her nephew Owen and Alicia's need to be seen by Roan. The fox himself is an anthropomorphic treat. He skulks the streets of Hampstead; hungry for attention just like the human characters and I particularly liked how Jewell used the fox as a symbol of how Saffyre and Josh were comfortable with the fox's presence in the urban landscape of London.

This is definitely one to hungrily devour on a summer night with characters who will stay with you long after you turn the last page. A definite five stars from me.
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thank you for the opportunity to read your book, i really enjoyed it, i love th3 switch from past to future as well as keeping us guessing on who dun it. top marks yet again!

This lady never disappoints and always meets my expectations!

The Invisible Girl had me gripped from the beginning to the end a captivating intense read.

The character description were detailed and well thought out the story is faced past and suspenseful.

This is 100% going on my top books of 2020, this delivered for me in everyday!

Thank You to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for this ARC!!

When Saffyre Maddox was ten something terrible happened and she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. Roan Fours, her therapist, who she thought was going to heal her didn't,and now she follows him like an invisible girl, learning his secrets.

Owen Pick is invisible too. He's thirty-three years old and he's never had a girlfriend, he's never even had a friend.

But when Saffyre Maddox disappears from opposite his house on Valentine's night, and cases of women being sexually assaulted in the area arise, suddenly the whole world is looking at him. Accusing him and holding him responsible because he seems like the perfect type.

But then the questions arise... Is he really responsible? or is he just misunderstood? If he is innocent who is the culprit? And where is Saffyre?

This a very well written book which draws you in right from the first page with enough twists and secrets to keep you hooked on right till the end. And just at the very end you receive that final twist in the tale that's absolutely mind blowing!

I truly loved this book. It focuses the social injustice on how sometimes we just judge a person by his looks and then make an assumption which might not necessary be true.

Overall a fantastic psychological mystery which packs a punch. Highly recommended!!!

Lisa Jewell is one of my all time favourite authors.
Invisible Girl is a dark psychological thriller set in present day London. The story is told from multiple P'sOV - Kate Fours, Owen Rudd and Saffyre Maddox..
Three totally different people all connected, all about to collide under disturbing circumstances.
Three parts to the story, Before, After and Now.
At the beginning I wasn't particularly drawn to any of the main characters but as the book progresses and we learn their histories I found myself caring more and more about them and desperate to get to the outcome. Without giving away any spoilers I found Owen's storyline to be the most compulsive, strangely interesting and thought provoking. Lisa Jewell takes us on a twisty, fast paced journey and along the way she deals with abuse, secrets, misunderstandings and loneliness. I will be recommending this domestic thriller to friends and family.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for an advance reading copy of 'Invisible Girl'.

This book started slowly and didn’t speed up, wandering through different people’s lives who are entwined in the storyline.
Saffyre, a 17 yr old girl, had been having therapy for 3 years with Roan Fours who lives locally with his wife Cate and their two children. Cate and Roan have been having problems for the last year.
Saffyre lives with her uncle Aaron. has had a difficult life. She becomes obsessed with Roan and begins following him and finds out he is having an affair with a younger woman,Alicia.
Owen, a teacher who lives across from the Fours gets suspended from school for inappropriate behaviour and ‘sweating’ on two girls on purpose ( and this was before COVID ).
He’s singles in his thirties, living with his aunt, lonely and a bit of an oddball
He joins an Incel chat group and meets up with a member called Bryn who is targeting likeminded people as he wants to start a revolution and give men back their place in the world.
Saffyre is still missing and the police interview all the locals on the street they find evidence in a nearby building site and then in Owen’s back garden.
Owen is brought in for questioning and his flat searched where they find the incel chat room on his computer and rohypnol that Bryn had given him.
He seems the obvious suspect but is he?
Having taken several goes at reading this I’m glad I stuck at it as the story now takes a really good and surprising path. Things start to become more interesting and intriguing.
Difficult subjects to write about - done in a mature and sensitive way.
Loved the ending and the build up - totally not what I was expecting.

5 Stars from me

My my Lisa Jewell what must your search history look like!

I have loved previous books by Lisa Jewell so was already anticipating good things as I sat down to read Invisible Girl.

I am glad to say that I wasn't disappointed!

The story centres around a few strong characters and I really like that format. We have a family - mum, dad, 2 children - seemingly the ideal set up. We have a teacher who is seemingly inadvertently in the middle of an accusation of sexual misconduct - I felt quite sorry for him. We have a girl whose life hasn't exactly gone to plan, she is in therapy which explores the things which have gone wrong in her life - yet she manages to keep back the worst thing.

Their paths cross and interweave in a wonderfully crafted way, layer upon layer of gossamer threads sticking where they touch...

This is proper compelling reading and I was quickly immersed in the story and the lives of these people.

Definitely recommended.

Another amazing read from Lisa Jewell! I love her books and this one doesn’t disappoint. We join Saffyre, a troubled teen, and the family of her ex therapist, the Fours. Now Saffyre goes missing. Has she been murderd? Kidnapped? Another victim of the local sex pest?
Cate Four is trying to look after her family and quell her suspicions that her husband is cheating on her.
Why was Saffyre last seen across the road from their house?
Literally unputdownable! I read this book in a day. Sucked in from the first page, it is so easy to invest in the characters as they are so well written and believable. Kept me gripped to the very last page.

I am a fan of Lisa Jewell and I could not wait to get a copy of her latest book Invisible Girl.
This story is told from three characters point of view. Each completely different to each other but connects in some way. There’s 17-year-old Saffyre Maddox who some time ago something happened to her and she now self-harms. There is Roan Fours who has just moved into an influential street in Hampstead with his family and Owen Pink who is an odd character and a 33-year-old virgin.
This story is about Rape, self-harm, and a miscarriage of justice. It’s about stereotyping people on just looks alone and hearsay and not recognising that people may need help in the world.
I found this a bit slow and confusing at first, which each character’s stories, but as time went on, I got to see the clear picture of this story. This is one of them books that will make you think of how we perceive people and not that we believe they are by what we are told. This is very cleverly written.

A brilliant read that I could not put down. I wanted to know what happened. The characters were so cleverly interwoven you could not forcast what was going to happen. The ending was very satisfying.

I’m a massive fan of Lisa Jewell and I’ve been trying to work out exactly why her books are so fantastic. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s her ability to write exceptional characters and this book has them in abundance.

Saffyre is a 17 year old girl with a troubled past. Roan is a therapist. Owen is a 33 year old man who has never been with a woman and doesn’t know why. Cate is a married mother of two trying to run her family home and keep her family happy. Georgia is a typical, self-centred teenager. Tessie is a reluctant landlady. These, and many other characters make up this book. They intersect and intertwine with each other as we try to work out who is committing these terrible attacks and what is going on! The author does a sterling job of making every single character worthy of our attention and there are so many twists and turns that the whole book has a menacing vibe from start to finish.

It almost feels wrong to love a book about such an unsettling topic, but I did. It’s an excellent psychological thriller with a dark and disturbing plot and I completely adored it. Thank you to Lisa Jewell for another fantastic read and to NetGalley and the publishers for my copy of this book.

Lisa Jewell never disappoints and this is another great psychological thriller from her.

Saffyre Maddox, now 17, has had a challenging life since something terrible happened to her when she was ten. She had many sessions with therapist Roan Fours but never disclosed her whole story and didn’t feel ‘fixed’ by Roan despite him signing her off as he believed she was ready to stop therapy. She still is fascinated by Roan though and becomes the Invisible Girl as she watches him from afar.

Roan, his wife Cate and their teenage children, Josh and Georgia, are living temporarily in Hampstead while building work is being done on their family home in Camden. They thought Hampstead was upmarket and would be an interesting place to live but then attacks start happening in the neighbourhood and people are getting nervous.

One of the residents, teacher Owen Pick, aged 33, is under suspicious as some think he looks creepy and he has a couple of potential black marks against his name after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour from girls in his class at school. Owen becomes involves in the Incel (Involuntary Celibate) online subculture which gets him in further bother when the police start investigation the attacks.

This is a well written story with dark themes but also one that hopefully makes the reader question any prejudices about judging others and how society reacts to those who don’t fit into our own personal norms.

There were plenty of twists and turns and secrets revealed as we found out more about each character. It was very well told and came to a satisfying conclusion. As always, I look forward to many more novels by Lisa Jewell.

With thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Another great read from Lisa Jewel. Relatable and well rounded characters in an intriguing storyline which gradually builds into a real page turner. This book will make you constantly second guess who is bad and who is good - and hopefully serve as a reminder that the judgements and assumptions we make about people are very often wrong.
An excellent and really enjoyable book which I rated 5⭐️

Cate, her husband Roan and their two children move into a flat and shortly afterwards they find out that women are being attacked in the local area.
When a teenage girl goes missing suspicion falls on their neighbour who lives with his aunt in the house opposite them.
A slow moving story with some very unsavoury characters.
This thriller is about secret, lies and not being able to fit into modern society.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for my e-copy in exchange for an honest review.

Lisa Jewell returns with another dark, intense, creepy and twisty psychological thriller set in London that examines a wide range of complex flawed characters, many of whom comprise of societies oddballs and socially awkward misfits, and the quick to judge perceptions of the police and the public, heightened to unbearable levels with vilification through the questionable medium of social media. At the tender age of 10, Saffyre Maddox underwent severe trauma that has haunted her ever since, leaving her self harming. She has been seeing a therapist for some time, Roan Fours, but he has scarcely touched on her trauma, believing she is no longer in need of help. A sexual predator is roaming the Hampstead neighbourhood, attacking women, contributing to an unsettling atmosphere of fear and unease.

On Valentine's night, 17 year old Saffyre goes missing and the finger of suspicion from the police and the public falls on 33 year old geography teacher, Owen Pick, a man who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Pick lives with his aunt, opposite to Roan and Cate Fours and their teenage children, Josh and Georgia. Owen is the archetypal social oddball and weirdo, isolated and alone, with no friends and never having had a girlfriend, upset at having been suspended after complaints. In a slow burn of a creepy immersive narrative, relayed from multiple perspectives, there are twists and levels of tension and suspense that make this a gripping and compulsive read.

This is a story of deception, secrets, trauma, revenge, mental health issues, the rush to quick and erroneous judgements, and injustice. Jewell thoughtfully explores how societies real monsters walk blatantly amongst us, hiding right in front of our eyes, rather than those demonised, who all too conveniently fit the picture that a delusional society believes n and how lives are all too easily wrecked, people who are often afflicted with a plethora of problems and issues. This is a disturbing and unsettling read that will appeal to Jewell's fans and other psychological thriller aficionados. Many thanks to Random House Cornerstone for an ARC.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I have liked everything this author has written and this was no exception. It had me hooked from the beginning, great storyline, great characters and a great ending.