THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! "Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won't see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted." —Booklist, starred review "More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir...Skillfully told by several narrators, Jewell's gripping novel is an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal." —Publishers Weekly "Sharply written with twists and turns, Jewell's latest will please fans of Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, or Luckiest Girl Alive." —Library JournalEllie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...

"I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is her best thriller yet." —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Win From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of "gloriously twisted" (Marie Claire) psychological suspense about a web of people whose lives are forever changed in the wake of a young couple's disappearance.On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, "DIG HERE." Could this be...

A MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ from People, USA TODAY, theSkimm, E! News, Forbes, New York Post, CrimeReads, and many more! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller. He's the perfect man. It's a perfect lie. Nina Swann is intrigued when she received a condolence card from Nick Radcliffe, an old friend of her late husband, who is looking to connect after her husband's unexpected death. Nick is a man of substance and good taste. He has a smile that could melt the coldest heart and a knack for putting others at ease. But to Nina's adult daughter, Ash, Nick seems too slick, too polished, too good to be true. Without telling her mother, Ash begins digging into Nick's past. What she finds is more than unsettling... Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her...

Meet the Bird FamilyAll four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden.But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart.The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all.Almost. But not quite.Because something has happened that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter weekend all those years ago.

From the internationally bestselling author of "Ralph's Party "comes a delightful new novel about the power of starting over.Eleven years ago, Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary fell deeply in love. They thought it would be forever, that they'd found their happy ending. As everyone agreed, they were the perfect couple. Then two became four, and an apartment became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn't quite so simple anymore. But through it all, Jem and Ralph still loved each other. Of course they did.Now Jem is back at work part-time as a talent agent. Ralph, a successful painter, is struggling to come up with new, hopefully groundbreaking, work for his upcoming show. But the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart And in the chaos of family life, Jem feels like she's losing herself, while Ralph, stuck on the sidelines, feels like he's lost his muse altogether. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to each other, back to what they once had, they both become momentarily distracted--but maybe it's not too late to recapture happily ever after...

When the hottest pop star of the flashy ’80s disappears from the scene, she’s dismissed as another one-hit wonder--until her body is found in her half-furnished London flat, leaving more unanswered questions than clues. . . . Her bestselling debut, Ralph’s Party, was called "astute and engagingly hip" by The Baltimore Sun; about her second novel, the London Times said "thirtynothing will keep you up all night in a sweaty, addicted reading frenzy." Now Lisa Jewell is back on the scene with her funniest novel yet. One-Hit Wonder takes you into the thrill-a-minute life of a disco diva--and the dreary life of her mousy younger sister. Shy and gawky, Ana Wills has always daydreamed about living the life of her exotic half-sister, Bee Bearhorn, a pop singer who had a #1 hit single before she inexplicably vanished from the celebrity scene. She gets her chance when Bee turns up dead, and Ana is dispatched to the big city to clear out the apartment of her once-beloved sister. Instantly seduced by the secondhand glamour of Bee’s baubles, bangles, and bottles of champagne, Ana takes up with Bee’s wild club-hopping cronies, along with her sexy chauffeur. But news of visits to a remote country cottage and an elusive ex-boyfriend soon prove Bee was leading a secret life. Now Ana is on a mission to discover the truth about Bee Bearhorn, the one-hit wonder--and in the process finds herself, and her future. An irresistibly entertaining tale of a woman who takes control of her life by temporarily taking on someone else’s, One-Hit Wonder is this acclaimed author at her witty and captivating best.

Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other. Yet. They are all facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Her best friend has just had a baby and the closest thing she has to a physical relationship is with her personal fitness trainer - who is probably gay. An unexpected letter from her long-lost uncle reveals a shocking truth about her childhood. Dean is a young man whose life is going nowhere. He is jobless and about to have a baby with a girl who hates him. But then one afternoon, life flips over and leaves him somewhere he never expected to be: a single dad to an ill daughter and he is forced to re-evaluate his whole life. Robyn is nineteen. She is training to be a doctor and is determined one day to be a paediatrician, just like her dad. She has never met her dad. Neither has her mother. He was an anonymous donor, and that's exactly what she wants him to stay. The man who brought her up is the only dad she wants. Her donor dad is just a character in her own personal fairy tale. Until the day she meets the man of dreams and falls in love. He looks like her, he thinks like her, he even has the same freckle in the same place on his left hand. It could be just a coincidence, but she needs to be sure before she can allow herself to be with him. Meanwhile in a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she moistens his mouth and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will, conceived with women he has never slept with, never even touched. Four of them , apparently, two boys, two girls. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. As his children slowly find their way into each other's lives, will Daniel have a chance to meet his legacy and to say goodbye to his children before his time is up?

Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting ... and Leah has been itching to peek behind the front door of Toby's eccentric house, always packed to the rafters with weird and wonderful tenants. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and with a sprinkle of romance and their own special magic, Toby and Leah's dreams show the glimmer of a chance of coming true.31 Dream Street is a wonderfully warm and insightful novel that will capture the imagination and soothe the soul.

Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend ...Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points:Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning novelist Sean's got a hot new girlfriend and a dose of writer's block; and Ned's just back from Australia, without the girl he took with him -- or a clue what he's going to do with his life.If that wasn't enough for one household, the Londons also have a new lodger -- a mysterious rockabilly called Gervase. Will he turn out to be a friend -- or foe -- to the family?

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In comes a "compelling and heartbreaking" (Jojo Moyes) novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew.Lydia, Dean, and Robyn don't know one another. Yet. Each is facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed, single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is eighteen. Gorgeous, popular, and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident of her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she's failing her classes. Now she's falling in love for the first time. Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It is a letter containing a...

Vince & JoyRemember having sex for the very first time?Remember thinking: this is The One?Remember life getting in the way...?Remember wondering: what happened to the person I once was?And what happened to the person I first fell in love with?For Vince and Joy, finding your destiny is easy.Following it, isn't...From teenage love in an eighties holiday park to flatshares, relationships, career crises and children, Vince & Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined; and asks the question: how do you know when something is really meant to be?