I loved this one so much - clever, slick and so intriguing. 'I swear her books are masterclasses for authors. Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS 'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph - I think this might be my favourite Lisa Jewell yet.' LOUISE CANDLISH This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! Stayed up so late because I couldn't put it down.' ADELE PARKS, author of Lies Lies Lies and Just My Luck she gets right into it, doesn't mess about, puts real-seeming characters with rich interior lives through 350 pages of insane suspense - and then hits us with an ending we never saw coming. 'No-one tells stories like this better than Lisa Jewell.

I was utterly utterly agog.' MARIAN KEYES The Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good. 'I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet.

At 4.30am Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.įriends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.Ģ018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head-teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence.Ī cold case. Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.Īt 11pm she sends her mum a text message. She currently lives in Swiss Cottage, London with her husband Jascha, and daughters Amelie Mae (born 2003) and Evie Scarlett (born 2007).'Mum, there's some people here from college, they asked me back to theirs. In 2008 she was awarded the Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Romance for her novel 31 Dream Street. Those three chapters were eventually developed into Jewell's debut novel Ralph's Party, which then became the UK's bestselling debut novel in 1999. Īfter being made redundant, Jewell accepted a challenge from her friend, Yasmin Boland, to write three chapters of a novel in exchange for dinner at her favourite restaurant. She worked in fashion retail for several years, namely Warehouse and Thomas Pink. Michael's Catholic Grammar School in Finchley, north London, leaving school after one day in the sixth form to do an art foundation course at Barnet College followed by a diploma in fashion illustration at Epsom School of Art & Design. Jewell was born in London and educated at St. Her latest book The Family Remains was published in July of 2022. Her books include Ralph's Party, Thirtynothing, After The Party (a sequel to Ralph's Party), and later Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs, Invisible Girl and The Night She Disappeared. Lisa Jewell (born 19 July 1968) is a British author of popular fiction.

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