He Said/She Said
On sale
5th April 2018
Price: £9.99
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‘Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
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Don’t be left in the dark.
In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever.
Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear.
And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, she also knows that you can never see the whole picture: something is always hidden . . . something she never could have guessed.
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‘I’m calling it: THIS is the book I wish I’d written’ Clare Mackintosh, author of Let Me Lie
‘It’s SO good . . . I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped‘ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
‘A gripping, twisting, furiously clever read . . . I loved it‘ Ruth Ware, author of The Lying Game
‘It’s magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing‘ Marian Keyes, author of The Break
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018
RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2018
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK
SHORTLISTED FOR CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018
‘Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
***********
Don’t be left in the dark.
In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever.
Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear.
And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, she also knows that you can never see the whole picture: something is always hidden . . . something she never could have guessed.
***********
‘I’m calling it: THIS is the book I wish I’d written’ Clare Mackintosh, author of Let Me Lie
‘It’s SO good . . . I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped‘ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
‘A gripping, twisting, furiously clever read . . . I loved it‘ Ruth Ware, author of The Lying Game
‘It’s magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing‘ Marian Keyes, author of The Break
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Reviews
It's SO good...I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped
Superbly twisty and readable thriller; pure enjoyment
Kept me guessing, kept me gripped and kept me thinking
Not just a tense psychological drama but a meditation on the complex view. Kelly brilliantly uses the eclipse as metaphor, exploring the fact that though we long for black and white, the partial view is all we ever get. Dive in.
Twisted, atmospheric and perfectly plotted. Her best yet.
Kelly proves herself (once again) a mistress of the dark arts of psychological thriller writing with sinuous storytelling that beguiles and entraps the reader. Lingers in the mind long after the final page. Set to be the psych thriller of 2017
Fantastic... a real tour de force, with characters I won't forget any time soon
Tense, beautifully written and with a real gut-punch of a twist
A tour de force - a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it.
Kelly is a beautiful writer who can conjure an atmosphere with exceptional skill...a fantastic psychological thriller replete with mystery and misdirection
It's magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing
I loved this book...Exceptionally clever.
It has a twist, and a stunning one at that but there is much more to this superbly written psychological drama...Intelligent, thought provoking and utterly compelling, this book held me spell bound until the very last page.
Deeply immersive... an ingeniously constructed and thrilling novel about the many different forms of betrayal
Erin Kelly speaks the language of tension fluently. HE SAID/SHE SAID will make you question everything you know and suspect everyone you think you can trust. My first response was to read it all over again, to see where the traps were set.
HE SAID/SHE SAID tantalisingly exposes the lives of beautifully drawn characters, holding them under a magnifying glass as the consequences of one terrifying moment during an eclipse ripple out over the years. With all the anticipation and tension of an actual eclipse - mysterious, breathtaking, powerful - Erin Kelly captures the essence of the 'unputdownable novel' by combining fear, breathtaking twists and turns, as well as her trademark bewitching prose.
Erin Kelly keeps you guessing to the very last page, she cleverly reminds us of our own fallibility and gullibility
Multi-layered and stylish, with characters you feel you know, dilemmas you can imagine grappling with, and a hurtling plot that's unpatronising and clever to the last page. My admiration for Erin Kelly has just gone up another notch.
I devoured it...weaves such a delicate line between everyone's version of the truth, it was impossible to stop reading.
A masterclass in drip-fed suspense, beautifully written and astutely observed. This book left me extremely tense throughout - in a good way!
A superbly dark and complex psychological thriller from a really exceptional author. Kelly' s beautiful and atmospheric writing pulls you in from the first page. I read right into the night.
An addictive read. The mystery and majesty of the total solar eclipses lends an eerie inevitability to the doomed and twisted attempts of Erin Kelly's all-too-human characters to control their lives.
A haunting and beautifully twisted tale of desire and deceit. Erin Kelly is the kind of writer whose work you read and instantly wish it were your own.
HE SAID/SHE SAID is dazzling...you simply won't be able to look away. Erin Kelly is a class act on top form.
I'm calling it: THIS is the book I wish I'd written
A taut, cleverly constructed novel about what we see, know and understand - and how they are not always the same thing. Prepare to step into the darkness...
I loved HE SAID/SHE SAID. Beautifully written, gripping and as twisty and dangerous as a 400-page-long rattlesnake, this is Erin Kelly at the absolute top of her game, and everyone else's too
Deliciously tense and twisty.
From the very first sentence, HE SAID/SHE SAID casts a shadow - how to undo what is done. The ending is as inevitable as it is dark; it swept me away and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Love and its twisted opposite, truth and lies that shade from little white to pitch-dark. Here be images to haunt you and characters to make you doubt your own judgement.
Brilliant. A masterclass in how to write a gripping psychological thriller.
Thought-provoking and sensitively handled
A clever, compulsive read, which sinks its claws into you and won't let go
Erin Kelly has written several good psychological thrillers, but in He Said / She Said she ascends to a new plane of ingenuity. Her ability to switch between the sordid reality of crime and juicy melodrama, the story anchored within the realm of plausibility by the care with which she brings her characters and settings to life, reminded me of Ruth Rendell at her best.
There's so much to love here - seamless plotting, descriptive prose, characters so real they pull you in to their tangled lives - and then an absolute humdinger of a twist that will take your breath away.
A dark, incredibly atmospheric psychological thriller with a clever, elaborate plot that sucks you in step by step. An unpredictable yet always plausible story about the far-reaching consequences of actions and even lies. A gripping page-turner
Kelly is a master at drip-feeding us the details, keeping us guessing about the truth, and the many shades of grey it contains, right until the end.
Brilliantly plotted, packed with suspense
Expertly constructed
Erin Kelly is one of the finest stylists in British crime fiction, and this is further proof of her gift for creating tension...a compelling, very modern thriller
Gradually, with skilful pacing and growing tension, Erin Kelly reveals shocks and twists that go on until the very last page
Genuinely thrilling
A gripping, dark thriller...A thrilling tale of dangerous obsession, the book explores how far the ramifications of a single event can reach.
Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.