The bestselling author of The Family Upstairs delivers another incredibly tightly-plotted page-turner where a handsome stranger stirs up dangerous obsession in a newly-wed woman.
You're not the only one watching...
You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door.
He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you.
Family secrets, illicit passion and an unexplained murder? It can only be the gripping new novel from Lisa Jewell, bestselling author of Then She Was Gone.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9781784756277
Number of pages: 512
Weight: 354 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30 mm
Then She Was Gone was my favourite thriller last year and this is even better. Brilliantly plotted and impossible to put down, it kept me guessing until the very end.
A finely drawn domestic thriller - Sunday Times
Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama. Stellar. - A J Finn
I’ve always been jealous of her. I’ve always envied her ability to write a sentence. She’s written a couple of psychological thrillers and her plotting is really great but her characterisation is great as well. - Marian Keyes
Whenever a new book by Lisa Jewell comes out I jump at the chance to read them. If you're looking for a book that you can sit down to and lose yourself in, then this is the book for you.
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