IN CONVERSATION WITH Lisa Jewell

‘I wouldn’t give my younger self any advice. I’d just let her get on with it’

It’s been more than 20 years since Lisa’s first book, Ralph’s Party, became an instant bestseller. Sixteen novels later, she is now writing the psychological thrillers she always wanted to, achieving great success with the likes of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs. In her new book, Invisible Girl, Jewell shows what it’s like to be an outsider and how we sometimes go looking in the wrong places for the bad people. Lisa lives in London with her husband, two daughters and dog.

I have a rather strange relationship with my first book,