Publication Date: Out now!!!
Formats: Hardback, Ebook and Audiobook
Price: Hb £12.99/ Ebook £7.99
Publisher: Michael Joseph (Penguin)
I would like to say a huge thank you to the team at Penguin, especially Gaby Young, for allowing me to take part on this wonderful book’s blog tour. I am also grateful in ben=ing able to read and review a digital gifted copy thank you. Thank you also to the creative talent, Jane Fallon, for creating such an intriguing and a hilariously chaotic story. Intrigued yet? let’s head over to the blurb to find out more.
Best friends tell each other everything. Or do they?
Georgia and Lydia are so close, they’re practically sisters.
So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her – but Lydia’s not the kind to accept a handout. Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer.
But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn’t know her quite as well as she thought. Georgia knows she should reveal the truth – especially when Lydia starts talking about her – but she just can’t help herself.
Until Lydia reveals a secret that could not only end their friendship, but also blow up Georgia’s marriage.
Georgia’s in too deep.
But what can she save?
Her marriage, her friendship, – or just herself?
Wow, oh boy was this book not what I thought it would be…. Don’t worry its all good I assure you. This is a darkly humorous and sinister glimpse into a long standing friendship, which when it gets tough, seems to not be as strong or unbreakable than first thought. This is a story about how even though you know someone for a long time, there are times when lives start to drift apart and it soon becomes harder to be close to someone, no matter how hard you try to cling on to them.
This is also a story about, trust, love, of both kinds, the nurturing and healthy love as well as the obsessive and damaged love which can blind people from seeing who they really are and why things don’t always go their way. We watch these two main characters, Georgia and Lydia, trying to work out their relationship with one another and also trying to work out who they really are. Georgia has everything that Lydia wants for herself, a gorgeous and loving husband (who she secretly pines for) kids and not just one but twins and a job that Lydia also craves for. We see how Lydia, instead of going about finding out how she can improve and maybe even changing jobs, goes about destroying her friends life along with her own, all for the sake of wanting something that to her other people seem to have the gift to just get easily.
What Lydia doesn’t understand is that Georgia also feels unworthy, and at times doubtful in herself and what she has created, and soon finds herself gaining even more prestige than she knows what to do with. So already there is a conflict between the two friends and one in which creates the sort of high tension, hilarious intrigues and painful moments which we all love to read about, especially if we are not involved. This book definitely takes you all over the place with your emotions, you are all in sympathy with Georgia and her husband and at the same time you have sympathy for Lydia as well, the catalyst and Instigator of her own demise in their friendship.. I don’t want to go further than I already have, but if you love rivalries, jealousies and bitterness with some highly hilarious and painful intriguing moments, this is the book for you.
The also surprising thing about this book is how it kept the tension up without any killing, murdering or violence of any kind, its all in the word play and how messages are twisted and stories fabricated to make a person seem untrustworthy. This author knows her audience and how to capture your imagination, and its used beautifully and cleverly.
Ratings: 4 🌟 with a large ☕️ and a large 🍰 just because you need the caffeine intake and sweet goodness 😉
Authors Blurb:
Jane Fallon is the multi-award winning television producer behind such shows as This life, Teachers and 20 Things To Do Before You’re 30. Her Sunday Times bestselling books – Getting Rid of Matthew, Got You Back, Foursome, The Ugly Sister, Strictly Between Us, My Sweet Revenge, Faking Friends, Tell Me A Secret and Queen Bee – have sold over a million copies in the UK.
I hope you have enjoyed this rather tragic, hilarious, dark and twisted look at old friends, turned enemies and rivals to then moving on from what has been and now in the past. This looks at all the influencing media such as Instagram and Twitter and how for vulnerable people it can become so obsessive into looking good and getting followers, that you lose sight of yourself and your friends and that sometimes you won’t even notice the change. I could go on and on but I might end up repeating myself, if you can’t tell its good and one that I would recommend to people you can find this book in Waterstones, any independent and of course on Amazon. I will leave you now to say Happy Reading and enjoy this lovely Bank Holiday and see you all soon!!!!
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