Walker, meanwhile, captures Alix’s building disquiet at Josie’s manner and the inconsistencies in her story.

She wears wide-legged trousers and a top made of two pieces of black cloth held together with laces at the sides. Lisa Jewell's first novel, Ralph's Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Q: Readers will be shocked by the twists and turns of this plot; did any elements surprise you while you were writing it? A few days later Josie approaches Alix as she’s waiting to pick her children up outside school, and says she’s been listening to her podcasts, and wants to know if Alix will feature her, not as a successful woman, but as a woman who has some dark secrets but is about to change her life completely.As the podcast continues, some very disturbing facts begin to reveal themselves, and Alix realises that she’s made a big mistake! But the more Alix comes to know Josie and her past, the more she worries she's made a terrible mistake.

Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages.In walks a blonde, well dressed, attractive ‘Birthday Queen’ and this proves to be podcaster Alix Summer with a big crowd including husband Nathan. Josie’s hand finds the chain she’s worn around her neck since she was thirty; her birthday gift that year from Walter.