It means she’s wrong, that everything, literally everything, about her is wrong and that she’s running out of time to make herself right. Toward the end of the novel, we get more perspectives on Josie as a character and the truth of what she did—from her children, her mother, Katelyn, and others. The premise of this one had me really looking forward to it – a strange woman befriends a podcaster and drags her into her strange, dark world.

The other woman is Josie Fair, married with her husband two times older than her, mother of 2 daughters in twenties, a teen mother, who is unsatisfied with her life and her unaccomplished dreams. Instead it seemed an ideal opportunity to show how divergent women’s lives can be in spite of similar beginnings. But Josie seems like more than telling her story, lurking around Alix’s house, trying to be part of her life, criticizing her marriage.

One of the women is a podcaster and the small piece of information about being birthday twins starts a relationship that is faster than a runaway locomotive.

It’s like listening to a concerto slowly raises its tempo and as you reach the ending, you hear the crescendo: that’s moment the earth shattering revelation squeezes your heart, you barely breathe! The characterisation is excellent and I’m going to say little about either Alix or Josie as that is one of the joys of the book to discover for yourself! None of This is True is a psychological thriller about two women who, through a chance encounter, learn they are birthday twins. She worked for the fashion chain Warehouse for three years as a PR assistant and then for Thomas Pink, the Jermyn Street shirt company for four years as a receptionist and PA. There are a few aspects that I had to overlook up until this point, behaviors and lack of affirmative action in the characters that I don’t think would play out the way it did in the book in real life, but understandably needed to be done to progress this particular story.British podcaster Alix Summers meets mousy Josie Fair while they are both out celebrating their 45th birthdays at a local pub. Overall, there may not be many likeable characters in sight, but it is still a gripping read with a plot that fascinates from start to finish.

In contrast, Josie takes an unsettling turn, becoming adamant about getting involved in Alix's life. Although one of the twists that comes later on is easy to work out, the rest of it lies largely in the realm of unpredictability. These tidbits add another layer to the events, but the snippets don’t show the whole of the situation until the end when the truth is finally revealed. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home. A few days later Josie approaches Alix as she’s waiting to pick her children up outside school, and says she’s been listening to her podcasts, and wants to know if Alix will feature her, not as a successful woman, but as a woman who has some dark secrets but is about to change her life completely.But then it's revealed, amidst a sea of lies, that one story was TRUE: a character involved in grooming a young woman really DID groom said teenager. After reading a few pages, you find yourself drawn into riveting psychological thriller with unreliable characters, shocking revelations in podcast meets documentary blending in narration of incidents by hours and dates. Dissatisfied with her current life, Josie desires a change, craving a life free of responsibilities. The softly spoken, fifty-something babysitter left half an hour ago and the house is tidy, the dishwasher hums, the cat is pawing its way meaningfully across the long sofa toward Alix, already purring before Alix’s hand has even found her fur.