None of This Is True: A Novel

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 91,996 ratings

Price: 17.05

Last update: 04-28-2025


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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.

Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summer crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.

A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realize that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?

Top reviews from the United States

msamach
5.0 out of 5 stars good read!
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
Interesting story that keeps you page and leaves you with questions about what is true and how people’s perceptions can become their own truths. Well worth the read!
Kevin Gibson
4.0 out of 5 stars Needed Resolve
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2024
Books like these always leave me so unsettled because I read all of that and still don’t know the truth! I wanted resolution and there was none really. Overall good twists and turns!
Natalie
5.0 out of 5 stars Really, none of it is true!
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2024
My head spun with this one! I couldn't put it down. Lisa truly captivates her readers with relatable characters who do unrelatable things. I was so enthralled I would give my husband a blow by blow of each twist I came across. Even he wanted to know how it ended. Said I am a lousy summarizer but appreciated the details at the same time. Guess you could say it was fun for the whole family!
jesica love
3.0 out of 5 stars so creepy
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2024
Whew. This one was stressful. I couldn’t put it down, but I also couldn’t read it after dark b/c it was so creepy.
Josie and Alix meet at a pub on their 45 birthday. Josie is a housewife who works as a part time seamstress and lives in a run-down apartment with her husband and one of her two adult daughters. Alix is a successful podcaster with a husband and two young kids living in a beautiful home. They were born on the same day in the same hospital and yet their lives have gone down two very different paths. Josie tells Alix she has a story to get out there and suggests being the subject of a podcast. Alix has been thinking of changing directions with her podcast and likes the idea of the story of Birthday Twins.
Alix realizes pretty quickly that Josie has had a lot of trauma in her life. There is something strange about her that Alix can’t quite put her finger on. She seems so vulnerable but also maybe a little bit dangerous. And the deeper she gets into Josie’s story, the more that feeling in her gut tells her to be careful. She doesn’t want to victim blame, but something just doesn’t seem right.
Told as part novel, part podcast transcription, and part Netflix documentary screenplay, this is a modern thriller for a modern world.
David Banig
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2024
Lisa drew me in right away. That is important and once you have me there is long nights of reading.
So many twists to follow, even during friendship and trust part of the reading.

Great read!
Jo the traveler
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly tense.
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024
Starts out like a story of the casual meeting of two housewives who have identical birthdays and begin a pod-cast about their lives, but gradually morphs into a story suggesting child molestation, theft, lies, assault, betrayal, addiction …. By whom? Gets nerve wracking, suspenseful.
Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars 4/5
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2024
Slow start but finally picked up speed.
Characters are interesting and has an alternating timeline. Something about the ending didn’t leave me with 5/5.
seekeroftruth
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2024
Everything she writes is good!

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