‘Invisible Girl’, by Lisa Jewell.
What’s it about:
LONDON: On a fine avenue of grand houses, big cars and electronic gates, lies a neglected urban wasteland.
It is nearly midnight, and very cold. Yet in this dark place of long grass and tall trees where cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is waiting...
When Saffyre Maddox was ten something terrible happened and she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides from him, invisible in the shadows, learning his secrets; secrets she could use to blow his safe, cosy world apart.
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. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares about him.
But when Saffyre Maddox disappears from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at him. Accusing him. Holding him responsible.
Because he's just the type, isn't he? A bit creepy?
INVISIBLE GIRL: 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.
My thoughts:
What a fantastic novel by the ever so clever Lisa Jewell. Big fan of her books ever since the days of Ralph’s Party.
The characters in this novel are in depth and well described. It was well written, fast paced, intense and gripping all the way through, leaving you to want more. It’s clever, intense and shocking at times with plenty of plot twists and turns that will keep you glued to your seat and second guessing all the way through.
I really enjoyed the thought provoking and extremely well crafted novel.
Highly recommend this and all of Lisa books.
5 out of 5.
With thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone for the ARC.
Publication date: 6th August 2020
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