Disclaimer: The astonishing Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller, perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal

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A few parts dragged, and I found myself getting restless again, but then it picked back up, and during the last quarter of the book I couldn't put it down. The marvel of the new suspense novel “Disclaimer” is that it lives up to its unusually gripping premise. Such a clever twist on this type of psychological thriller, really as you read it you feel it could go either way. Catherine's third-person narrative is accompanied by the first-person narrative of the man who is tormenting her; an odious and now retired but much loathed teacher, whose aim seems to be inflicting the misery that has marked his life onto others. I’d like to say an enormous thank you to the publishers Random House UK firstly for publishing this book, and secondly for allowing me the great pleasure of reading it.

To what extent will she go to force her enemies into declaring that she had been innocent all along? Disclaimer would have made a more damning statement of both a marriage and the family unit if perhaps Renee Knight had left the aftermath to the readers imagination. Many years ago a terrible incident occurred - an incident that Catherine has never come to terms with, has buried and tried to erase. She starts reading it, and horrified she discovers that the story is actually about a secret she thought would never see the light of day; a secret only she and someone dead for the past 20 years knew about. Though the reader will see some things coming, other things they won't, and that's what makes these types of reads fun.Catherine Ravenscroft leads a satisfactory life with her husband and son, when a mysterious book finds its way into her home and. The book portrayed Catherine as entirely to blame for this death, though the terms used and the vitriol of the way she is blamed, warns the reader to not entirely trust the book’s author. Renee shows such magnificent skill in plotting amazing characters and creating dark and atmospheric story. the inner lives and motivations of the main characters are well explored and I was always totally involved, gripped even. Catherine Ravenscroft is a successful documentary filmmaker, happily married and seems to lead the most amazing life until one day she finds a book at her home, starts reading and realizes the book is about her.

Catherine who had never revealed to anyone what happened in Spain now feels she is fighting a fiction everyone will believe. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. Knight also tells the woman’s (Catherine’s) story in second person, while the author of the revealing novel, Stephen, his story is told in first person. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book which got so sinuously under my skin as the twists and turns became evident. The book follows two stories, which though at the beginning seem they are not connected, they are in fact, very strongly.

is turning into another great year for books, most especially debuts and this one is definitely going to be somewhere near the top of the favourites list come the end of the year – I was totally absorbed into the story and loved the emotion of it as much as the mystery element. Nothing in her background suggests that she could leap into the overcrowded field of crime writing and emerge at the top of the heap.

Sadly, this debut left me fairly flat and I felt it lacked in the crucial spark and element of excitement that pulls the reader in. Catherine remains rather distant, but I suppose this is intentional, to keep the reader guessing about whether she's supposed to be sympathetic or not.The story is centered around a mysterious book the main character — Catherine (I'd forgotten her name) — finds in her home. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I can’t say I felt connected to any of the characters, but the story was so intense and gripping, that I really didn’t think much about the characters’ flaws. There are advantages to the plain language (especially the fact that it doesn't go into detail about unnecessary things - no lengthy descriptions of what people had for dinner or dropping of middle-class brand names), but overall it's a bit flat, and the punctuation is awful, although that's something I am assuming (but can't be sure) will be amended in the published version.