AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I absolutely loved Invisible Girl—Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterization—she has such compassion for her characters, and we feel we know them utterly… A triumph!” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with … bestselling author
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her.
Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct—accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure.
Owen lives across the street from the Fours family. The Fours have a bad feeling about their neighbor; Owen is a bit creepy and suspect and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Could Owen be responsible? What happened to the beautiful missing Saffyre, and does her disappearance truly connect them all?
Evocative, vivid, and unputdownable, Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
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I loved this book. The story had so many pieces yet came together so perfectly. It was unpredictable and the characters were fantastic. Great book club book and overall a really good read!
Suspenseful, good characterization. Lisa Jewell’s books keep getting better.
It is no secret that I am a huge fan of Lisa Jewell, and even though I haven’t read all of her books yet, I know I will read everything she writes. So it’s no surprise that I was super excited to get to Invisible Girl, and I am happy to report that this is another solid thriller from one of my favorite authors! I thought the pacing was perfect and I really enjoyed the many viewpoints. I decided to listen to the audio, and I loved the cast which consists of Donna Banya, Katherine Kelly, and Connor Swindells. There is nothing that makes me happier than a full cast, and they all did such an amazing job voicing this book. I did find myself getting a little confused at times with who Roan vs. Owen was, but other than that this was a great one for audio.
The thing about Invisible Girl is that the mystery takes a little bit of a backseat at times, and the story really focuses on the characters and their complexities. However, there are still plenty of twists and turns, and it focuses on the very serious topic of sexual assault. It is full of short chapters that made the book speed by, and I was taken by surprise by basically all of the aspects of the ending. I would recommend going into this one as blind as you can though which is what I did, and it really is the way to go. If you are a fan of Jewell then I definitely recommend Invisible Girl.
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advance review copy of this book, all opinions and thoughts are my own.
This is the perfect psychological thriller. A middle-class family with secrets a-plenty living in beautiful, leafy Hampstead; a troubled, missing teenager and an overgrown building plot left to rack and ruin. I love the way Jewell writes. She flits between three different points of view changing the voice so each one is distinct. There is Cate, defined by her roles as wife and mother, Saffyre the beautiful girl with a terrible secret, and, Owen, the cringe-inducing, gauche prime suspect with a terrible alcohol intolerance. He made me anxious every time he appeared on the page – I wasn’t sure if I believed him, but I always felt sympathy. The other character that I found intriguing is Roan, the husband. He doesn’t get his own voice, but there is a lot of focus on his activity.
This is a story about being invisible – going under the radar, but also about the private lives we lead. Cate feels shut out from her husband, Roan, a child psychologist and they are trying to patch up their marriage after Cate, convinced he was having an affair, overstepped the work/personal life boundaries. Things are starting to look up, until a card arrives which puts the seeds of doubt back into her mind. All the characters are interconnected in some way – even through their hobbies. Everything creeps slowly and horribly towards the downfall of Owen and the way he reports the incidents around him made me want to leap in and intervene – especially with Bryan. Owen is such a lonely character and the attitude of his father towards him (and his mother) is terribly sad and explains a lot. Even his aunt, Tessie, who he lives with only just tolerates him. Owen needs help and not just with his appearance. Reading the bits with Deanna give a glimmer of hope, but at the same time, I couldn’t help the sinking feeling in my stomach. Jewell is so clever at taking the reader to the brink and down all the wrong paths to make you leap to the wrong conclusions.
I was so relieved and grateful for the ending. Boy – what a huge, huge twist! Superb.
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Love Lisa Jewel’s books!
This book was really good. I stayed up to finish it. I would definitely recommend this book. But beware that you won’t be able to put it down! A must read!!
The characters were so well drawn. I knew Roan was evil from the beginning. Saffyre was such a brave and amazing character. There was a feeling of menace throughout the book. Great plot twists and characters make this book!
Some reviews didn’t like it as well as some of her other books but I thought it was great. A page turner!
Just completed this book in under-24 hours and I would expect nothing less from my favorite author. I’ve been reading Jewell since 2000 and what captivates me most about her books are the creative plot lines, sympathetic characters (even the purported loner/accused criminal pulls at your heartstrings) and writing laced with humour. Her style is un-self conscious. I don’t feel like she’s writing to impress with clever prose, just deliver a great page-turner to her readers. Great way to spend a rainy Sunday afternoon. 4/5 stars only because the ending petered out a little bit for me.
This was one of my most anticipated reads for the Fall. I was introduced to Lisa Jewell last summer by Katie @the_grateful_read when I won her giveaway for The Family Upstairs! I would never forget how excited I was and how I just loved reading it.
Lisa Jewell is definitely the queen of twisty domestic thrillers and The Invisible Girl was amazing for me. I loved how the characters weaved in so beautifully into the story while a few red herrings were thrown in there that made me suspect someone else! Tricky tricky!!
This was an enjoyable read and I really had fun reading this book.
Highly recommend!
Invisible Girl is the latest utterly brilliant psychological thriller by one of the queens of the genre Lisa Jewell. It’s a chilling,thought provoking tale of judgement, suspicion, deception, revenge and the repercussions that spur of the moment decisions can have on a person’s life.
On the surface it appears that Cate has a perfect life, she is married to handsome child psychologist Roan and they have two teenagers who she adores Georgia and Josh. But appearances can be deceptive and Cate’s marriage isn’t as happy or stable as it appears. A year ago she did something that she bitterly regrets and even now, Roan refuses to forgive her for.
Owen Pick is a thirty three year old loner who lives with his aunt,has never had a girlfriend and has just been suspended from his teaching job. He is a sad,lonely character who Georgia thinks is creepy due to a inccident that happened when she was walking home one evening.
Saffyre Maddox is seventeen years old and has some serious issues due to something terrible that happened to her when she was ten years old. Saffyre was once Roan’s patient and now spends her nights camping out on the wasteland near his home. She has been watching him for a while and knows all his secrets.
Three characters whose lives are going to become entwined when Saffyre goes missing and Cate and Owen find themselves plunged into their own personal nightmares and once the truth is revealed will discover that their lives are never going to be the same again.
The chapters of this totally enthralling thriller alternated between Cate, Owen and Saffyre and flipped back and forth in time between the present and the past. I loved Cate, she reminded me so much of myself due to her anxiety and paranoia over her marriage and I could fully empathise with her conflicting emotions. I also loved her interactions with her children who were both quite likeable,realistic characters, which made a refreshing change from the obnoxious brats that usually appear in thrillers. The chapters that were set in the past were told from Saffyre’s perspective and took the reader through the events leading up to her disappearance. I thought that Saffyre (I love that name) was a fantastic character and very likeable, I loved her interactions her the fox and Josh. As for Owen, did he have something to do with Saffyre’s disappearance as the police suspected or was he just a innocent loner who had been found guilty in a trial.by the media.
I really really loved this captivating thriller and I loved the fox silhouettes that were scattered throughout the book. Once I started reading it, I didn’t want to put it down and would have read it in one sitting if my old eyes had let me. The story held my attention throughout and had me frantically turning the pages and as for the ending…wow, talk about a mind blowing twist. Lisa Jewell is a very talented author who’s thrillers are consistently well written and unputdownable and Invisible Girl is no exception. Worth far more than five stars and very very highly recommended.
Compelling!
Lisa Jewell keeps you guessing till the very end! I was entranced from the very beginning and devoured page after page.
Very entertaining and a tad creepy!
Nothing can ever be perfect.
Lisa Jewell, an author of more than 15 novels, has created another thrilling story that will leave you turning the pages faster and faster as the story builds.
Saffyre, one of the narrators throughout the novel, is a 17-year-old young woman dealing with darkness from her past. Saffryre tells us as much reasonably early in her story.
Cate, another narrator throughout the novel, is a dedicated wife and mother who works semi-part time as a physiotherapist. She has her own demons she is battling and her own secrets to work through.
Owen, the third narrator throughout the novel, is a 33-year-old lecturer who is entirely lost within himself. He has questions that he isn’t sure have answers, and he struggles to find his place within society.
You can guarantee that her novels will make your pulse race and are impossible to put down from Lisa Jewell. The intricate way this story is told, how the pieces of the plot are so delicately dropped into place, and the way this tale is told will leave you guessing until the very end.
With characters all dealing with some challenge internally, all trying to figure out how to get through the day, we not only take their personal journey with them… but also take a much more sinister trip alongside this cast of unlikely individuals.
This novel will leave you breathless, and just when you think you’ve followed the clues and know what will happen- a small tidbit you overlooked comes back and explodes in your face. This story is beautifully written, has dynamic characters, and a twist you will be blinded by.
I highly recommend this novel. It is fast-paced, detailed, and absolutely terrifying. I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the second book I have read from this author. I absolutely love the cover, as it has phenomenal shelf appeal. I buddy read this with my good friend Nicole @yaaas_or_nahs_books .
In this book, we follow Owen Pick who’s life has fallen apart after being suspended from his job after being accused of sexual misconduct.
I ultimately liked this book. This was a complex story interweaving a family with a psychologist, a neighbor, and a former patient of the psychologist that collide in a way that you wouldn’t expect. To me, the pacing of this book was consistent throughout, with a few things occurring that I didn’t expect. Lisa has a unique writing style that can definitely suck you in, while being a solid domestic thriller author. I recommend this book to anyone who likes domestic thrillers with a unique psychological aspect intertwining multiple characters, while not being too complex.
Lisa Jewell has done it again. I can always count on this author to write a spine tingling, page turning thriller that I can’t seem to put down. The mystery was compelling and each character’s voice was unique and fascinating. I I was especially drawn to Owen’s story, both his personal history and the way he grew at the end of the novel, but Saffyre and Cate had riveting stories of their own. It was far from predictable and the question marks remain even after the final sentence.
What a cast of characters . Love it.
Owen, oh poor Owen, I know he has a good heart but life is just against him. He is charged with sexual harassment but somehow I just kept cheering him on.
The Four family: individually they seem to have a lot of secrets.
Saffyre who is 17 with huge issues is missing. I am a fan of hers.
Let the games begin.
Who can you trust? I know who I don’t trust.
The pages literally turn themselves.
Great read
I always fly through Lisa Jewell’s books, and this one was no exception. INVISIBLE GIRL weaves together the events before and after a girl named Saffyre Maddox goes missing, investigating the private lives of the people living on the street where she was last seen. Among those people are Cate—a mother and wife who’s trying to shed her past of being overly distrustful of her husband—and Owen, a teacher who’s just lost his job after allegations of inappropriate behavior toward girls. I really loved the character arcs in this book, and the surprising ways the characters intersected. Saffyre was a particularly fascinating character, as was Owen, and I love how Jewell continues to play with a reader’s expectations in her books. The second to last chapter was beautifully satisfying, and the final one was chilling, as Jewell leaves us with one final reveal. Nothing has topped THEN SHE WAS GONE for me yet, but this book is classic Lisa Jewell, so if you liked her others, you’ll enjoy this one too.
Classic Lisa Jewell. Or maybe Classic New Lisa Jewell. This author’s work has undergone such a metamorphosis over the years, and I’m loving this new, most recent phase of complex domestic suspense. In this, her newest one, Lisa Jewell follows a family and other disparate individuals whose lives intersect with theirs, each of them in varying states of loneliness and alienation.
Cate is trying to hold her marriage to Roan together even though something deep inside her wonders whether it is irreparably broken. Roan is elusive, unknowable and perhaps something much worse than either of those things. And then there are Cate and Roan’s kids: Josh, their moody fourteen-year-old who says little but sees everything, and Georgia, their high-strung sixteen-year-old who says everything, but notices very little unless it affects her directly. And just a few degrees separated from the family are Owen Pick, the strange neighbor who leaves women unsettled, and Saffyre Maddox, Roan’s former patient who for some reason is unable to leave Roan and his family alone, even after her treatment is done.
All these characters’ lives, as different as they seem, are about to become intertwined under very difficult circumstances and in true Lisa Jewell fashion, once they emerge on the other side, they will never be the same. After being blown away by Then She was Gone, I knew this author could get very, very dark so I read Invisible Girl with a mild sense of dread. Everyone was a suspect, everyone–no matter how much I as the reader thought I might have come to understand them–was capable of anything. This, I think, is Lisa Jewell’s talent. She walks you through the process of getting to know her characters and then makes you question everything you believe about them. She delivered on that talent in this novel, as she always does. Not my favorite by her, and certainly not as haunting as her last offering, but a good, solid read as always.
Recommended for readers of domestic suspense and mystery.
A little less suspenseful than what I’m used to from Lisa Jewell, but a good read