Marina Forster has left her past behind. She is happily married with two twin daughters and holds a senior position at a leading publishing company. She never thinks about what happened fourteen years ago, about the scandal, the trial, the trauma that nearly broke her.
When a new fiction submission lands on Marina’s desk, she at first thinks nothing of it; That Girl is just another novel by another aspiring writer. But as she reads on, the parallels between the novel and Marina’s own past become ever clearer. At first, she is unnerved; then, she is terrified. Who is writing this? What do they want? And how do they know what happened all those years ago?
Increasingly paranoid and unsure who to trust, Marina fears the past may be about to repeat itself. She must put a stop to this before it’s too late – but who will believe her this time?
I Know It's You Is Susan Lewis' 50th novel and what an absolute belter it is. I haven't read a Susan Lewis book I haven't loved and I Know it's You is no exception. It's a book within a book with chapters of a new novel being gradually revealed in a submission to a publisher and I couldn't read fast enough to discover all the secrets of the past.
Marina seems to have the perfect life, married to Maxim, mother to twins and working in publishing, but she has some dark secrets in her past. The past never stays buried for long but Marina's past might be about to get very public when a book is being written that seems to know a lot about Marina's life. Oh this gave me tingles from my head to my toes as I tried to imagine how scared Marina must have felt.
There are always two sides to every story and the story being told in 'That Girl' is very one sided, but Marina is clearly rattled so you have to wonder how much of it is true. I was as gripped by the story in 'That Girl' as I was by everything that was happening in I Know it's You. It was a little confusing at first as each character in the book also has another fictional character but I quickly got used to it.
It's so cleverly written that I was suspicious of everyone and I didn't know which version of Marina was true. I also loved the glimpse into the world of publishing and the setting is a book lover's dream.
As clever as it is compelling, I Know it's You is a fabulous novel to mark such a wonderful achievement for Susan Lewis. I haven't read all 50 of her novels but I'm already excited for whatever she writes next; in the meantime, I've got a lot of her back catalogue to get through.
Very highly recommend and many congratulations on your 50th novel, Susan.
I received an ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.
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Susan Lewis is the internationally bestselling author of fifty books across the genres of family drama, thriller, suspense and crime, including I Have Something To Tell You, One Minute Later, My Lies, Your Lies and Forgive Me. Susan’s novels have sold over three million copies in the UK alone. She is also the author of Just One More Day and One Day at a Time, the moving memoirs of her childhood in Bristol during the 1960s.
Susan has previously worked as a secretary in news and current affairs before training as a production assistant working on light entertainment and drama. She’s lived in Hollywood and the South of France, but now resides in Gloucestershire with husband James, two stepsons and dog, Mimi. @susanlewisbooks
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