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It Could Have Been Her
  • Published: 2 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804952955
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00

It Could Have Been Her

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Tr. Paperback
30 June 2026
Hardback
2 Aug 2026
EBook
2 July 2026
Audiobook
2 July 2026
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PREPARE TO BE HOOKED: The no. 1 Sunday Times and MULTI-million-copy bestselling author is back with a brand-new spine tingling thriller.

It was the night she almost died.

Jane Trevally, newly divorced and feeling a little lost, agrees to accompany a man she doesn't know to his house in the darkest corner of Hampstead Heath. She's offered a drink, goes in, and then - a scream and the sound of something falling upstairs - Jane senses she's in a bad place. She runs.

Twenty five years later, Jane finds herself outside the same house, this time to return a small white dog who's been found near her home in the country; a dog whose owner has just been reported missing.

A fleeting glimpse of a haunted looking woman through the window sends Jane on a mission to uncover the house's secrets - secrets more terrifying than she could have ever imagined, especially when she realises it could have been her ...

A missing woman, a dysfunctional family and dark, dark secrets ... Prepare to be hooked: it's the new Lisa Jewell thriller.


Readers love Lisa Jewell:

'Lisa Jewell is a STONE COLD GENIUS!' MARIAN KEYES
‘Lisa Jewell is on top-form' RUTH WARE
'A master of her craft’ MICHELLE McDONAGH
'[Lisa Jewell] is a genius' SABINE DURRANT
  • Published: 2 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804952955
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell's first novel, Ralph’s Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the year. Since then she has published another twenty-three novels, most lately a number of dark psychological thrillers, including Then She Was Gone, The Family Upstairs and None of This is True. Lisa is a number one New York Times and Sunday Times author who has sold over ten million books worldwide and been published in more than thirty languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, Daisy, a Romanian rescue dog, and a mad orange cat called Ivy. @lisajewelluk on Twitter @lisajewelluk on Instagram @lisajewellofficial on Facebook.
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Also by Lisa Jewell

Don't Let Him In
Invisible Girl
The Third Wife
None of This is True
The Night She Disappeared
The Girls
Breaking the Dark
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Praise for It Could Have Been Her

I don’t know how she does it, but again, it’s her best book yet. Absolutely stunning storytelling, with layer after layer deftly and tantalisingly revealed, and a denouement that is so perfect, so devilishly clever, and yet I didn’t see it coming. A true masterpiece

Andrea Mara

A top-notch thriller, featuring the most endearing protagonist that I can easily identify with - a nosy middle-aged woman who stumbles across the story of a missing girl and decides to investigate it herself. Alternately cosy and harrowing, it investigates the most toxic family I have ever read. Superbly written with wit and class, Lisa Jewell remains at the top of her game with this entertaining and twisty thriller

Liz Nugent

Nobody does dark, dysfunctional families like Lisa Jewell. A writer at the top of her game who consistently smashes it out of the park. I devoured It Could Have Been Her in a day. A deliciously twisted gem of a thriller and her best yet. She really is a genius storyteller.

Claire Douglas

Lisa Jewell books are a must read for me. She creates living, breathing characters you recognise, but also because you can never tell where she is going to go next. I only know that it’s going to be dark!

Jojo Moyes

Twisty, twisted and oh so dark. Lisa Jewell once again proves herself a master of suspense.

Riley Sager