Too long and too slow. I couldn’t get into this novel. I kept picking up other books, looking for other reads. Than would come back and hope for something else

This is a gem from @lucydawsonbooks and I was hooked very quickly. This resulting in me devouring this book in just one sitting.

Jude is a nurse, working permanent nights. A call from her mother changes everything. This had me hooked. I have loved this book. Margaret is not a likeable character at all. The phone call is the start of a nightmare for Jude.

This book is well written and pulled me in. I felt as though I was watching this play out ahead of me and became completely engrossed.

This is definitely a character driven book. The characters are in complete control of this one and I can safely say that I have not disappointed.

This is my first Lucy Dawson book, but it definitely won’t be the last. This has been everything I had hoped for and more.

I have no hesitation in recommending this book. It’s a great read

Great author, but not her best work. It was just too much of a slow burn for me, but the writing was good enough that I’d definitely try another one of her books

I loved this book! so many lies, so much covered up, sad but a happy ending. the court case was told really well, I could feel the emotion

I found it hard to connect to the characters in this one. I liked this book but I couldnt say I loved it. It was confusing at times which led me to put the book down and come back to it.

Ahhhhh im so annoyed with the ending of this book. I really enjoyed the whole thing, the suspense, the build up, the complicated storyline....but the ending just let me down so much!

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Jude is an A&E nurse working the endless night shifts, at her behest, having lost of her partner a year before and suffering insomnia ever since. Becoming nocturnal is her way of coping. During the break of one of her shifts, she meets charasmatic Rik who is also nocturnal by choice and the two form a kind of understanding and, dare she say it, friendship. Until one night, she receives a troubling phone call from her mother prompting her to drop everything and race up to Berkshire. What awaits her is nothing short of a nightmare. Lady Margaret Fawkes has been evicted from her lifelong home at Highcombe (Hall, Manor...I can't remember which - a big stately house at any rate), in which she had grown up as a child and spent her married life there alongside her newspaper mogul husband Benedict, at her father's and then her brother's discretion. Highcombe is entailed to pass down to the next male heir in the line and after the death of Lady Margaret's brother Anthony, the estate is then passed down to her nephew Timothy who has returned from his home in South Africa with his family to restore Highcombe and make it a working/running estate gaining income from functions and open days. Lady Margaret is appalled at the idea. But Lady Margaret has been evicted to a cottage on the estate, which is still a mansion by most people's standards...but not Lady Margaret. When Jude arrives at Highcombe, it is to the devastating news that her mother Lady Margaret has been arrested and charged with historic sexual abuse. Jude is shocked. Her mother? This cannot be true. But there is an even bigger shock to come. And the hole that Lady Margaret pushes for Jude to dig herself just gets bigger and bigger...until she is left to flounder alone!
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for giving me an advance copy.

This one really wasn't for me, which is a real pity because I have loved Lucy's work in the past. It just moved too slowly, I like a fast paced story, especially in the thriller genre. The characters weren't fleshed out enough.

I also felt that the ending was a bit confusing and I had to read other reviewers take on it to try and get some clarification.

Wow. I have no words. This was so good. Had me hooked from the beginning and could not put it down. I started reading this book yesterday and only read to 21% and the rest I finished today. Thank you netgalley giving me this arc in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! What a ride! This hooked me right away and never let us. I highly enjoyed all the twists and turns it took and will definitely be recommending to my friends.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.

The Night She Lied by Lucy Dawson was an absolutely unputdownable read! Lies, secrets, murders and trials! Jude meets a mysterious man on named Rik while on her night shift. Little does she know he has a history with her family. Soon Jude is standing trial for murder but she insists it was suicide.

Thank you #NetGalley for the wonderful read!

Oh I loved this one. Could not out it down. read it in one breathless sitting. Absolutely brilliant. One that I was thinking about long after I'd finished reading. Just wonderful.

A gripping thriller, and as the title suggests you don't really know who to believe. I've not read any courtroom dramas before so this was a new one for me, and really enjoyed the suspense and climax!

I absolutely loved this book!
Lucy Dawson is a wonderful author who is able to completely draw you in from start to finish. I loved Jude, Timothy. Johnnie and Richard, they’re all great characters! I love how truths are revealed throughout the book and you never really know who to believe from one chapter to the next.
I also love how it ended, I found it very emotional.
Such a great book!
4.5⭐️

The night she lied. What a title! The characters in this story will keep you hooked to the narrative. Fast paced and full of action, this is one book I couldn't put down. A must read.

This was another fantastic **LONG AWAITED!!!** title by Lucy Dawson.

Absolutely gripping physcological Thriller in true page turning, can not put down- Lucy fashion!
5 Stars, fully recommended to friends and family!

Yes, Yes, Yessss! This book was fantastic! It was on that kept me turning page after page while on the edge of my seat. Twist and turns....shock after shock....Lucy Dawson THANK YOU!

It had been a while since I last read a Lucy Dawson book, so I'm delighted to be able to say they are as moreish as ever, and I found this incredibly fast to read.

I was hooked on how events were unravelling, and was never completely sure what to believe with regards Margaret.

In the case of Jude, well we know her truth, but as things heat up, even I'm not so sure of what the truth is.

This is twisty, full of half truths, and potentially unreliable narrators. We get to see how events unfurled in the historic storyline, and the present day, just wow.

It's a brilliantly addictive story that I couldn't devour fast enough.

Thank you to Bookouture and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

EXCERPT: 'Mr Foreman,' says the clerk, barely audible above the noisy panic in my head, 'answer my question: yes or no. Have you reached a verdict in respect of the defendant upon which you are all agreed?'
'Yes.'
I swallow at the crescendo of shrill alarm. Guilty.
'On the count of murder . . .'
This is it. I start to breathe, deeply and quickly, in preparation for the moment of pain and shock that have finally arrived and are going to hurt. It's going to hurt. I close my eyes and brace for the verdict to slam into me. Guilty, guilty, guilty. I can smell it.
'STOP!' shouts a voice, and my eyes snap open.
What just happened?

ABOUT 'THE NIGHT SHE LIED': Every family has secrets. Would you kill to keep yours?

It’s midnight in the hospital when Jude ’s phone rings, interrupting her precious fifteen-minute break. When she sees it’s her seventy-year-old mother, Margaret , she braces herself for the usual complaints. But her blood runs cold at four words that will change everything... ‘Something terrible has happened.’

Margaret has been accused of an unspeakable crime committed twenty years ago. She insists she’s not guilty, and begs Jude to help her prove it. But as Jude is drawn into the dark secrets of her family’s past, she starts to question whether her mother is really as innocent as she claims to be.

Soon, Jude realises what happened twenty years ago is more entangled with her own life than she could ever have imagined. And as she stands face-to-face with her mother’s accuser, she knows the cost of protecting her family will be someone else’s life...

MY THOUGHTS: This is one complicated and totally f***ed up family, which means plenty of twists and turns in the plot. (view spoiler)

Dawson has written a cast of complex characters. I was never quite sure just how stable Jude was, and therefore how reliable her narration, which only added to the thrill of the read.

The story is told over several different non-linear timelines by Jude in the first person, and other characters in the third person. This may sound confusing but it's not. I was quickly drawn into the story and remained enthralled almost until the end.

It is a dark and twisty tale. A tale of the monied and privileged upper class and their 'entitlements'. A tale of parental neglect and abuse. A tale of manipulation, cover ups and denial. A tale of mother/daughter relationships. I loved it.

It was the ending that left me feeling confused, bewildered and befuddled. I went back and read it again, and again, but it still made no more sense to me. This would have been a five-star rating, if not for the ending . . .

⭐⭐⭐⭐

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THE AUTHOR: After reading psychology at Warwick University I edited a magazine for Oxford and Cambridge universities, then a national one for 6-12 year old girls called Star Girl. By then I’d realised I wanted to write, so I qualified as a personal trainer and pilates teacher, writing my first book between classes and clients. Thirteen years later and now living in Devon with my husband and two children, I still enjoy writing just as much as I did then.

DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Bookouture via NetGalley for providing a digital ARC of The Night She Lied by Lucy Dawson for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions.

The Night She Lied by Lucy Dawson was full of twists and turns, which instantly pulls you in and doesn't let go not until the very last page. This book was so good I didn't want it to end.

Every family has secrets. Would you kill to keep yours?

WoW!!!!

It’s midnight in the hospital when Jude ’s phone rings, interrupting her precious fifteen-minute break. When she sees it’s her seventy-year-old mother, Margaret , she braces herself for the usual complaints. But her blood runs cold at four words that will change everything... ‘Something terrible has happened.’

Margaret has been accused of an unspeakable crime committed twenty years ago. She insists she’s not guilty, and begs Jude to help her prove it. But as Jude is drawn into the dark secrets of her family’s past, she starts to question whether her mother is really as innocent as she claims to be.

Soon, Jude realises what happened twenty years ago is more entangled with her own life than she could ever have imagined. And as she stands face-to-face with her mother’s accuser, she knows the cost of protecting her family will be someone else’s life...

Brilliant and I highly recommend this book another 5 star.

Big Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture and Lucy Dawson for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.