Alix has a podcast on women who have overcome hardships in their lives. Josie engineers a meeting with Alix outside her children’s school and asks if they can meet.

Josie tells Alix she is planning “big changes.” Did that mean ditching her current family? If that was what she meant, she could just run off and leave Erin with Walter. By killing Walter, she’s the only caretaker left for Erin. Josie could say that she was suffering from battered woman syndrome, but why tie her daughter to a chair, the daughter she claims was being abused by Walter? To me, this shows Josie was lying. Few New York Times best-selling novelists can say their career was launched with a bet, a handshake, and the promise of a good meal. And yet, that’s precisely how Lisa Jewell came to write her 1999 debut novel, Ralph’s Party. Plus she had all those weird conversations with Alix about how much better off she’d be if he was dead. So I’m not sure I buy her story that it was an accident. What was Josie’s Endgame?Alix agrees to a trial interview and indeed, Josie's life appears to be strange and complicated. Aix finds her unsettling but can't quite resist the temptation to keep digging. I have to say that if I had covered up a murder five years ago, the very LAST thing I’d want to do would be to go on a podcast to talk about breaking free from my past. Unless I either wanted to confess or to be notorious. What is your take on the ending of None of This is True? When I first heard about this, I could hardly believe it. A story that follows two women turning forty-five, and I am turning forty-five this year. It can't be coincidence... Right off the bat, I was intrigued and I felt like I was being misdirected in some way. The path the story took, I was never quite sure who I could trust.

If this book didn’t victim blame a thirteen-year-old girl, it would have been a four-star read. A teen is incapable (and inculpable) of holding any power over a creepy middle-aged man.I listened to this on Audible, finished it about an hour or so ago. I then did something that I’ve only done once before; returned it. Shortly after, they bump into each other again outside of the school that Alix's children currently attend, and Josie's attended years ago. It’s getting to the point that every single year @lisajewelluk is on my top 10 of the year… sometimes multiple times!! This year is going to be no different!!! She killed it!! 👏👏👏 Perhaps her best yet!!! 🤫😍