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Not her best but still a gripping novel.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 17 agosto 2020

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I have become a great fan of Lisa Jewell's novels, most especially: Watching You and Then She was Gone, though I don't begrudge a minute of any of the seven that I have read. Invisible Girl lacks something of the sharp cutting edge of the writer at her very best but is still a compulsive read. Ms Jewell's forte is creating tension out of familiar domestic scenes. She excels at the cracks beneath the outwardly calm surface of relationships. Here, I feel there is not quite the depth, nor the subtlety that she provides at her best. Owen is a potentially interesting individual but somehow for me the threads are not drawn together as effectively, so that at times I felt I was almost reading two separate novels. Nonetheless, I was held throughout and perhaps I am being a trifle harsh on a writer who has come to lead us to the highest expectations.

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A dark psychological thriller

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 11 aprile 2022

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A dark psychological thriller that will spark interest and intrigue in the plot and side stories but will also trigger fascination and curiosity with the characters. Flawed, with secrets, mysterious and haunting.

Owen is a thirty-three-year-old teacher accused of sexual misconduct against one of the pupils, opening up a stampede of comments about his unsavoury behaviour from others. A victim or an offender?

Roan Four is a family man and child psychologist who has been treating Saffyre Maddox until he is forced to discharge her. His reason is that her treatment is complete, however, Saffyre has other ideas and wants the relationship or contact to continue so tries to track him down. She tries to uncover more about Roan, hides in the shadows and remains invisible. Then she goes missing

Now we have the main elements at play, however with a number of twists, revelations and unveiled secrets the story takes us on an interesting, disturbing, and creepy journey that will inspire a hungry turn of pages.

The moral to the story is poignant and powerful which I liked. The subject matter was challenging, yet some of the messages were subtle. Things like the little red fox making the occasional appearance heightened the level of suspense and created moments of reflection in the story.

The plot was excellent, dark, and gripping and delivered with the same sense of thrill that is customary with Lisa Jewell novels. An author I do like a lot. However, it was the characterisation, the behaviours and the performances that really intrigued me in this book. Especially, after the trauma inflicted on a ten-year-old girl who self-harms but wants to remain invisible and portrays what she wants the world to see. In doing so Saffyre creates a safe world for herself where she can remain invisible. It was her interactions with people, their treatment of her and others that fascinated me.

However, the idea of hiding scars and trauma was such a powerful theme, as well as the anguish, suffering, and distress felt by many but hidden and ‘invisible’ to the people around them. The theme continued with the offenders as invisible aggressors and how they can remain undetected in society and even within their own family units.

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The Lotus Readers

How do we help others, if we’re falling apart?

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 28 febbraio 2022

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The central relationship of this novel is that between child psychologist Roan Fore’s and his previous patient Saffyre Maddox. Saffyre has lost both parents and lives in a London tower block with her uncle Aaron. They spend three years as doctor and patient until she’s made so much progress it’s time for Roan to discharge her. Yet Saffyre doesn’t feel fixed. She has simply learned to wear masks. She’s studied the girls at school and now knows how to be an ordinary girl, she has a bunch of friends and at home seems the content family member. Once her grandfather dies, it soon becomes clear that no one knows or sees the true Saffyre. She’s become invisible.

Another narrator is physiotherapist and mother Cate. Cate probably appears to have everything. A long marriage to a fellow professional, two teenage children and an apartment in a huge mansion house until the renovations are completed on the family home in Kilburn. For now she’s getting used to her new flat, and life in Hampstead village. However, it’s not long before the novelty of life in this new neighbourhood wears off, when one of her daughter’s friends is sexually assaulted on her way home. This is not the first incident either. Could it be that the attacker is hiding on the building plot next door, which has seen very little activity apart from one JCB placed on site. The foxes are more active and can be heard screaming at night. Cate wants to keep her children safe, asking her teenage daughter Georgia to be careful coming home, especially at dusk onwards. Her son, Josh, is younger but is becoming increasingly difficult to pin down. She doesn’t always know where he’s been and who with, but can’t bring herself to imagine her kind, tender boy doing any harm. Cate’s husband is running, at all different hours and sometimes for whole afternoons. Should she be worried about where he is? That is aside from the affair she’d convinced herself was happening this time last year.

Our last narrator is Owen, a young, single man lodging with his aunt Tess down the road. Cate hates to generalise but he is the archetypal sexual predator. In his thirties, but with no relationship and seems like a bit of a loner. In fact the truth is even more worrying as we learn that Owen works at the local college and has been suspended for sexual harassment. Having turned down a course on creating a safer workplace, Owen decides to quit but now he has even more time on his hands. He finds himself drawn into the murky world of ‘incel’ websites - a group of men who are involuntary celibates because women won’t sleep with them. He makes contact with one charismatic leader within the movement and tqhey meet for a drink, but Owen finds his extreme ideas frightening. He believes in enforced impregnation, to get past this conspiracy barring men like them from having a sex life or their own families. Worryingly, and without being asked, he gives Owen a bottle of rohypnol. Mortified, Owen takes them but hides them in his drawers at home. Put off by the incel extremists, Owen decides instead to join Tinder and ends up on a date with a woman on Valentine’s Day. Little does he know that the events of that evening will become very important and may impact the rest of his life.

I liked the way Lisa Jewell takes us inside these characters while also letting us know how others see them. Cate sees Owen as an odd character who seems to stare and appears awkward around women. Saffyre sees Cate as the blonde skinny wife, with a life that revolves around her husband and children. Owen notices Saffyre hanging around the building plot and watching Cate’s family. All these disparate threads come together when Saffyre is reported missing. The author makes points about our biases in the case of Owen. When questioned by the police Cate mentions him as someone who’s odd, who watches people and suggests they question him. It made me think of the case of the 2010 case of Joanna Yeates who went missing in her home town of Bristol. The police took her landlord, Christopher Jeffries, in for questioning and his face was plastered all over the nation’s press. Even when released from questioning there were those that still found Jeffries suspicious. His only crime it seemed was to look a bit odd and unkempt and be described as a loner. Jeffries won substantial libel damages. On the other hand, is someone has the air of respectability through their profession or financial position they can get away with murder under our noses.

Saffyre is an interesting character and although I didn’t fully understand the reasons for her choice to live outdoors - I like my comforts - I can see how the flat becomes claustrophobic for her. Eight storeys up and the heat from all the surrounding flats becomes stifling. I wondered if it was a type of grounding she was seeking? I understand that. I have a need to feel the earth with my bare feet, particularly one specific piece of earth have almost always lived next to since I born. I was born on a farm across the road from the River Trent, and although I’m moving further south on that river as the years go by, I still take off my shoes and stand bare foot on the river bank. It’s like a communion with the river and it’s boundaries - a way of letting it and me know I am home. For Saffyre it’s the stars, the being able to wrap up warm while feeling cold nip your face, the quiet communion with a visiting fox, the feeling that perhaps, like the fox, she is wild. Inside there are many things she has to face, like the loss that surrounds her, the self harm, and the terrible thing a boy at school did when she was much younger. Outside she’s fee from these things and it is no coincidence that outside is where she first trusts someone enough to share those painful experiences. She’s incredibly perceptive for her age and is the only one to realise that Cate’s life is largely dependent on one man, and Saffyre is perfectly placed to see the potential for future pain in that choice.

Lisa Jewell is great at throwing red herrings into the plot and I didn’t recognise all of them, happy to go where the story took me rather than furiously trying to work it all out. I knew which way I wanted the plot to go and I was largely rewarded, with just one surprise for good measure. I always want to ask authors whether they know how their novels will resolve, which way each character will go and who will take the blame. I’m sure I’d get a variety of different answers. I do give my heart away to characters and I was desperately hoping Joshua wasn’t involved the sex attacks in the area, because I wanted him to be the sweet, kind boy I had built him up to be. What a story like this one tells us is that we are all a couple of decisions away from a completely different life. Georgia could walk out one night and meet the attacker. Owen could take his date rape drugs on his Valentine’s date. Cate could have left Roan years before when he cheated on her and promised to never do the same again. It made me think of the parallel lives we could have, if we just changed our minds. From a therapist’s standpoint it made me think a lot about fitness to practice and how we make the choice to see or not see a client. How we decide when to end therapy. Mainly, I wondered how we can be expected to help other people find their broken pieces if our own life is falling apart, and what impact that knowledge has on a young client like Saffyre. The novel felt timely, thoughtful and a great weekend read.

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Dalea11

A very modern mystery

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 luglio 2021

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If you like plot twists, great characters, and a mystery set squarely in contemporary society, then you will love this thriller by Lisa Jewell. Sex crime, incels, independent young daughters, infidelity, and much more, all meld together in a page turning narrative that previous readers of Ms Jewell will be familiar with - and new readers will surely become hooked on.

My only reason for giving four instead of five stars is that I enjoyed the author's previous novel, The Family Upstairs, so much and can't help comparing everything to this!

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Lover of books

Enjoyable

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 novembre 2020

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I really enjoyed this book, it kept me going from page to page. The only thing I would say is that it was a bit predicable as I predicted early on what was going to happen and not as good as other books written by this author. However I would still recommend!

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T. Giles

Fast paced page turner

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 21 aprile 2021

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A fast paced, page turner big bunch of characters lots of variety. A missing girl, a guilty man, a deadly secret. Sleepless nights couldn't put it down. Really good typical Lisa Jewell.

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mrs. m. wallace

The depth the author goes with the story

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 10 febbraio 2021

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It was an enjoyable book and the author helped you feel the character’s so well.

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Linda

Good read

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 26 settembre 2021

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Love this author she takes you on a journey keeps you interested in what's going on until the end got a little board early on but stick with it it gets better

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gillian gordon

Good read

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 10 marzo 2021

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Really good author. The twist is always a shock.can't wait to read the next book

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Mr Elliot Waterhouse

Lisa Jewell hasn't ever written a bad book.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 18 maggio 2021

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Lisa is one of the few authors who's books I can read time and time again. I adore the way she writes. Her characters are believable, the way she writes their words really builds a picture of the characters in your mind, and this book is no different. Really enjoyed this.

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