Lisa Jewell books: Invisible Girl author on why latest thriller is lockdown publishing hit
But Lisa – a former secretary whose 17 novels have sold some five million copies since her 1999 debut Ralph’s Party – is also acutely aware of households where the danger is behind closed doors, following her own emotionally abusive first marriage. “When the first lockdown was announced, I felt this cold dread flow through me,” she explains. “Even though I am now happily remarried to a wonderful man, it triggered those feelings of not being able to see the people you love, including family.” For Lisa, there are unsettling similarities between lockdown and the coercive control sh...