Isabel Ashdown: 10 books

In her eagerly anticipated second novel Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explores the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships, and traces across the decades the repercussions of a dangerous relationship.It's more than twenty years since Sarah Ribbons last set foot inside...

Portsmouth, 1984. Thirteen-year-old Jake's world is unravelling as his father and older brother leave home, and his mother plunges into alcoholic freefall.Despite his turbulent home life, Jake is an irrepressible teenager and his troubled mother is not the only thing on his mind: there's the hi-fi...

An exclusive short story by award-winning author Isabel Ashdown. Two years after her father's death, Sarah Ribbons prepares to spend the festive season on her own in his crumbling old cottage. It's not the idea of being alone that bothers her - she's determined not to be a burden on well-meaning...

Huis clos sur l'île de Wight. Lors des funérailles de leur mère, Jess retrouve sa sœur Emily, perdue de vue depuis près de quinze ans. Emily lui propose de venir habiter chez elle et son mari, James, dans leur maison de l'île de Wight. Le soir du Nouvel An, le couple part faire la fête...

No one knows you better than a sister—your dreams, your fears, your mistakes, and all your secrets.   It was just that way when Jess and her older sister, Emily, were children. Born barely a year apart, they were deeply entwined, complementing each other in their differences. When Jess felt awkward...

Every picture hides a story. Behind the story lies secrets . . .   In the photograph Martha Benn has kept for two decades, three girls lounge on the grass during a school field trip. Beside Martha, there’s Liv, petite and wickedly funny, and Juliet, their unofficial leader, brave, kind, and effortlessly...

It's the start of one of the hottest summers on record with soaring temperatures and weeks without rain; the summer of Abba, T-Rex, David Bowie and Demis Roussos; of Martinis, cheesecake and chicken chasseur; of the Montreal Olympi and the Notting Hill riots - the summer Big Ben stopped dead. Luke...

Moving between the majestic coastline of North Cornwall and the leafy suburbs of London, Flight is a story of secrets and lies - and of the indelible traces that are left behind when someone tries to disappear. When Wren Irving's numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn't...

Een duistere psychologische thriller, voor de lezers van Alex Marwood en Gillian Flynn Nadat ze elkaar zestien jaar lang niet hebben gezien, worden de zussen Jessica en Emily weer met elkaar herenigd. Nu ze hun lastige verleden achter zich hebben gelaten, keert de warmte tussen hen gelukkig...

Psychologische thriller over vriendschap, duistere geheimen en verraad Achttien jaar geleden zei Martha haar beste vriendin Juliet Sherman gedag op een donker weggetje langs een rivier in de Londense nacht. De volgende morgen werd Juliets fiets gevonden aan de waterkant. Juliet zelf was spoorloos...