Your apparently devoted husband has to go through the facts of your life with you again and again - but what if you start to remember things differently? Imagine waking up every morning to find you have no memory of what’s happened the day before because of a traumatic head injury from years earlier that has destroyed your memory.
Trauma Noir: Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson Still by far the best and twistiest, this pioneering thriller about a wife who goes missing and a husband whom the police suspect of murdering her, though no body has been found, was the first to nail the idea that you can never truly know the person you are closest to and what terrible things they might be capable of… Noir every which way: Five of the best Gripping twists and turns of tales from the dark side Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay (Sphere, £12.99) is out now, buy it here. But surely, given her phenomenal success, not to mention her newborn baby, the shoe must be well and truly on the other foot now.
My closest friends are all brilliant, independent, successful women and I do find myself looking at their lives sometimes and feeling a little envious about some aspect of it, their figure or an exciting holiday, for example,” Kay concedes. “I definitely find it hard not to compare myself with my peers. Who, after all, has never had the occasional twinge about their best friend’s success? It’s certainly a fertile subject, well done by Harriet Lane in her 2014 novel, Her, among others. Kay says that while she added these themes into the book to enhance her protagonist’s sense of loss and vulnerability, it was really about how two friends navigate their way from childhood through changing circumstances and priorities into adulthood. Her husband was killed by a drunk taxi driver, her younger sister is anorexic and her mother has dementia. Charles then does something that compromises all three of them, but when Jane calls him out on it, who will Marnie believe? And who is telling the truth? Jane also has a complicated back story.
Jane and Marnie have been bezzies since childhood and now, in their late twenties, things turn sour when Jane decides she doesn’t like Charles, the man Marnie is going to marry. I’ve moved straight from the ‘newborn bubble’ that began when my son was born into social distancing”.Īt its heart, Seven Lies is a story about toxic female friendship and jealousy, and the feeling of being left behind when your best friend moves on to bigger, better things. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĬurrently in lockdown in her parents’ house in London, where she is recovering not just from the “overwhelming” shock of her huge advance, but also from giving birth to her first child six weeks ago, Kay describes the current situation as “incredibly strange and unsettling.
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