Everything but the Truth

Critics Review

• Do you ever check your partner’s phone?
  Should you?
  Are you prepared for the consequences?
  
  Everything but the Truth is Gillian McAllister’s stunning breakthrough thriller about deceit, betrayal and one woman’s compulsive need to uncover the truth

  from the publisher's description

• Perfection. Intriguing and compelling. An exceptional debut

  Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO

• A beautifully written domestic noir full of secrets and lies that felt utterly plausible yet suspenseful and chilling. Perfectly paced, with a clever, tense plot that makes you question your own moral code. I was gripped from the very first page

  Claire Douglas, author of LOCAL GIRL MISSING and THE SISTERS

• Everything but the Truth is a cracker of a debut, all the more gripping because it could happen to any of us. Rachel and Jack and Wally were completely real to me from the very first page; I HAD to know what was coming next. Tense, thrilling and compelling – this is a book to devour

  Elizabeth Haynes

• Incredible! I read it all in one sweaty-palmed sitting. A morally complex mystery bound up in the everyday of our ordinary lives – it’s impossible to read this book and not ask yourself, how far would I go for love?

  Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of THE SQUARE ROOT OF SUMMER

• Everything But the Truth is startlingly good. Claustrophobic, suspense-layered and devillishy twisty, it grabs your attention from the very first page. What makes Gilly McAllister’s debut rise above other psychological thrillers is a lead character you can’t help but root for – even though you suspect you shouldn’t. Wise, scary and terrifyingly real, this marks Gillian McAllister as a new star in psychological thrillers

  Miranda Dickinson, Sunday Times bestselling author

• Everything But The Truth is a thunderous debut. An utterly unique story with a deep heartbeat and expertly crafted moral dilemmas. I read it in just two days, my heart in my mouth the whole time

  Holly Seddon, author of TRY NOT TO BREATHE

• Addictive – I found myself wanting to pick it up at every opportunity. Rachel manages the delicate balance between believable and likeable and you find yourself praying things work out for her. This is a brilliant debut

  Jenny Blackhurst, author of HOW I LOST YOU

• Once I’d started I was of course powerless to stop. Everything But the Truth is a dream début, brilliantly executed, clever and utterly realistic. I loved it

  Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author

• Intriguing and atmospheric

  Sheila O'Flanagan, Sunday Times bestselling author

• Gillian’s writing is beautiful. She weaves so much into every paragraph, revealing things slowly, as if pulling back a heavy curtain

  Cressida McLaughlin

• Tense and compelling. Everything But The Truth is an assured, clever, page-turning book. A great debut

  The Mistake I Made

• A gripping, compelling page turner that kept me up half the night

  Lying in Wait

• McAllister delivers a fascinating, complex and fast paced read about love, lies and acceptance. You won’t be able to put it down!

  Baby Doll

• A disquieting exploration of how events in the past take on a whole new perspective when parenthood looms. An assured and gripping debut

  The Darkest Secret