Best-selling novelist Lisa Jewell will be at a Cranbrook Literature Festival event in the summer, a very welcome return after a hugely successful visit in 2022. This time she will be talking about her new novel, published on 2nd July, It Could Have Been Her.

A missing woman, a dysfunctional family and dark secrets. What’s not to like about the new Lisa Jewell psychological thriller?

Jane Trevally finds herself caught up in a dark mystery. A young girl is missing and the house she lived in is the same one Jane has bad memories of from 25 years ago. A house from which she escaped, fearing for her life. Jane’s search for the missing girl uncovers dark, long-buried secrets with the current resident of the house reluctant to co-operate. What Jane uncovers is shocking, with the home truly being a house of horrors.

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, None of This is True and Don’t Let Him In. 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.