From left to right: Me, Adele Parks, Richard Osman, Liz Pichon, David Nicholls, Bonnie Garmus and two Masters Degree students (whose names I have forgotten, sorry) who won awards for their dissertations
I had the most wonderful time at the Nielsen Book awards in London on Monday. I was awarded two silver awards, for sales of over 250,000 copies, for The Missing and The Guilty Couple.
It was the most magical evening. It was so wonderful to meet Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo etc), Liz Pichon (Tom Gates), David Nicholls (One Day) and Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry) and it was lovely to see Adele Parks and Claire Douglas again, who I know from the crime writing community.
I am so incredibly grateful to all the readers who have bought my books over the years, and particularly those who bought The Missing and The Guilty Couple as, without you, I wouldn’t have two wonderful awards on my wall (actually four, I received two for The Accident and The Lie ten years ago).
And now for what you’ve been waiting for…
The cover reveal of IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND, my new book for 2025, published in hardback, ebook and audio book on 5th June.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙤 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙨…
When newly divorced Jude arrives in the small town of Lowbridge, she is soon drawn to the enigmatic Will, father to her young daughter’s best friend.But Will’s devastating past holds questions that nobody knows the answer to – and after two tragedies tore his life apart in just a few short years, gossip and rumours abound about what really happened to the women he loved.
𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘, 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧…
It’s Always the Husband was a lot of fun to write. I deliberately set out to write a book that’s rich in mystery:
Did Will really kill his first wife, and what happened to the woman who replaced her?
But I also got to mine my own experience of being part of the school run: the school gates cliques, the PTA, other people’s children, the gossip – and inject a little bit of humour into my main character, Jude.
It’s the kind of book you’ll speed through but it’ll also keep you guessing! What’s Sorrell’s dentist husband hiding? Why is Victoria’s husband spying on her? Can Jude trust Will or will she end up becoming victim number three?
It’s a book about not fitting in, about loneliness, about learning to trust again after you’ve been hurt, and how our pasts shape how we view other people.
It’s also a pacy page turner that you won’t be able to put down.
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