Cover Reveal - After The Lie by Kerry Fisher

Having really enjoyed both of Kerry Fisher's previous books, I jumped at the chance to be involved in today's cover reveal for her new book After The Lie..so here it is!

An addictive and gripping read about love, life and living a lie … 

One little lie can make one big difference … 

Lydia has the ‘right’ kind of friends, her children are at the ‘right’ kind of school and she’s married to the ‘right’ sort of man – kind, steady, reliable Mark. Her wedding business is flourishing and even though she is at loggerheads with her mother, she couldn’t ask for anything more from life. 

But the truth is that Lydia has been lucky. She has been living a lie for years and Mark has no idea who he is really married to. But nothing lasts forever and the past has a funny way of catching up with the present. When the person who knows all of Lydia’s dark little secrets turns up at the school gates, his presence threatens to blow Lydia’s life apart. 

What is Lydia’s terrible truth? Once the secret is out, you can’t put it back … 

Publication date: 29th April 2016.

Available to pre-order now. 

UK: http://amzn.to/1RU81Dw

US: http://amzn.to/1NJz4d0

About Kerry Fisher

Born in Peterborough, Kerry Fisher studied French and Italian at Bath University, followed by several years working as an English teacher in Corsica and Spain before topping the dizzying heights of holiday rep and grape picker in Tuscany. She eventually succumbed to 'getting a proper job' and returned to England to study Periodical Journalism at City University. After two years working in the features department at Essentials magazine in London, love carried her off to the wilds of the West Pennine moors near Bolton. She now lives in Surrey with her husband (of whisking off to Bolton fame), two teenagers and a very naughty lab/schnauzer called Poppy. Kerry can often be seen trailing across the Surrey Hills whistling and waving pieces of chicken while the dog practises her 'talk to the tail'.

Kerry has spent half her life talking about writing a novel, then several years at Candis magazine reviewing other people's but it wasn't until she took some online courses with the UCLA (University of California) that the dream started to morph into reality, culminating in the publishing of The Class Ceiling. The Avon imprint of HarperCollins picked it up and retitled it The School Gate Survival Guide, published summer 2014. Her second book, The Island Escape, came out in May 2015. It won first prize at the York Festival of Writing for the opening line: 'I was wearing the wrong bra for sitting in a police cell'. 

Best advice ever received: 'This is fiction, we can skip the boring bits.' Lynn Hightower, UCLA Writers' Program. 

Website: www.kerryfisherauthor.com

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Book Review - The Island Escape by Kerry Fisher

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Title: The Island Escape

Author: Kerry Fisher

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Avon

Publication Date: 21st May 2015

Rating: 4.5 Stars

Can one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Fans of Veronica Henry and Erica James, this is the next book to add to your reading list.

It’s time to get back to where it all began…

Octavia Sheldon thought she’d have a different life. One where she travelled the world with an exotic husband and free-spirited children in tow. But things didn’t turn out quite like that.

Married to safe, reliable Jonathan, her life now consists of packed lunches, school runs and more loads of dirty washing than she ever thought possible. She’s not unhappy. It’s just that she can barely recognise herself any longer.

So as Octavia watches her best friend’s marriage break up, it starts her thinking. What if life could be different? What if she could escape and get back to the person she used to be? Escape back to the island where she spent her summers? And what if the man she used to love was there waiting for her…?

Since I loved Kerry's first book, the second I saw the cover reveal for this one, I have been eager to get my hands on a copy. And I wasn't disappointed, The Island Escape is a fantastic story, although from the cover I was expecting a light hearted holiday read, this was slightly more serious, and the "Island Escape" bit doesn't really figure until the last third of the book. 

There are two alternating view points, best friends Roberta and Octavia. Roberta's marriage is on the verge of a break down, she can't take Scott's controlling behaviour much longer. Roberta's life is changing, and with it, her relationship with best friend Octavia is also changing. 

Octavia, was once a free spirit, but an accidental pregnancy led to her getting married to Jonathan the father. Jonathan is the safe reliable man, who likes things a certain way. They have 3 lovely children, Charlie, Poppy and Immi and a rumbling along nicely, until Jonathan suffers a professional setback. 

Between Roberta's marriage break up, and Jonathan being about a lot more, Octavia is left examining her own marriage a lot more closely and finds she can't stop thinking about the year she worked in Corsica, and the charming young man she met there. 

I found I was laughing out loud at this book, as early as the first sentence "I was wearing the wrong bra for sitting in a police cell." which is humorous and intriguing  at the same time. I was instantly wondering a) Why she was in a police cell, and b) why on earth was her choice of bra relevant. All was revealed very fast and that I feel set the tone for the book.

The Island Escape is about friendship, marriage, motherhood and reinventing yourself. There is so much more to this story as the two friends go on a journey of self-discovery. The voice of this book is refreshing and since Roberta and Octavia are from two completely different backgrounds, and have in theory completely different marriages, it is amazing the amount of similarities between both of their situations. 

I thoroughly enjoyed The Island Escape, and found I was rooting for both characters, and for their happiness.