Critics Review

• I inhaled People Like Her in a single sitting . . . Breathlessly fast, brilliantly original. Bravo, Ellery Lloyd!

  Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go and After the End

• A smart, gobble-at-a-sitting thriller

  Guardian

• I loved this eye-opening and compelling look at the horrors of Insta influencing – funny until it goes very dark indeed

  Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange and The Lies You Told

• Fast-paced and insightful

  Daily Mirror

• Social media has never been so dark or so compelling . . . Had me hooked right up to the jaw-dropping end

  Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife and He Started It

• Gripping and caustically funny

  The Sunday Times

• Grabbed me from the first few pages and didn’t let go . . . Plotted to perfection with skillfully woven twists and turns

  Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie and His & Hers

• Deliciously dark and devious

  Red

• I absolutely LOVED this book . . . One of my favourite reads of the year

  Phoebe Morgan, author of The Doll House and The Babysitter

• As gripping and addictive as Instagram

  Daily Mail

• A clever, original and page-turning thriller . . . I was gripped from the start

  Jenny Quintana, author of The Missing Girl and Our Dark Secret

• Slick Instagram noir

  The Evening Standard

• Suspenseful, thought-provoking, clever, and I suspected everyone . . . A truly brilliant and a refreshingly original read

  Karen Hamilton, author of The Last Wife and The Perfect Girlfriend

• A smart read

  Stylist

• The perfect contemporary thriller . . . Utterly impossible to put down. I loved it

  Caroline Corcoran, author of The Baby Group

• A cracker for the dark evenings

  Sainsbury's Magazine

• Excellent characterization turns up the tension in this addictive and absorbing psychological thriller. I was hooked from first page to last

  Olivia Kiernan, author of If Looks Could Kill

• Utterly addictive and gripping

  Fabulous Magazine

• Compulsive and wickedly funny – featuring the most grimly fascinating marital duo since Gone Girl. LOVED IT

  Katie Lowe, author of The Furies

• Gone Girl-esque . . . slick and sharp

  The Times

• Don’t read this book on the train – I missed my stop . . . A thrilling, witty page-turner that makes you laugh out loud [and] a sharp dissection of a very modern way of life

  Holly Watt, author of To The Lions

• A real page-turner

  Bella Magazine

• Absolutely loved [it] . . . Twisty and dark, like all great thrillers, but very, very funny

  Abbie Greaves, author of The Silent Treatment

• We couldn’t put this book down. A brilliant read

  Closer

• I loved it! I was actually holding my breath towards the end. Such a chillingly dark examination of what can happen if you filter reality

  Nikki Smith, author of All In Her Head

• A slick thriller about the perils of putting oneself in the social spotlight

  The Evening Standard

• A gripping take on the murkiness of those who make social media their métier . . . By turns harrowing and caustic, this book demands you stay up late to finish it – and possibly delete your account afterwards

  Harriet Walker, author of The New Girl

• A cautionary tale for the social media age

  Guardian

• The most addictive read of 2021 – this book is pure genius. Darkly witty, chilling and totally unputdownable – I defy you not to devour this in one greedy, obsessive gulp

  Rebecca Thornton, author of The Fallout

• If you’re a fan of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley, then this is one for you

  New! Magazine

• Misery for the Insta-age. A fresh, smart, horribly plausible thriller about the dangers of putting our lives online

  Tammy Cohen, author of The Broken and Stop at Nothing

• A dizzying tale about the dark underbelly of social media

  Mail Plus

• I tore through People Like Her, suspecting absolutely everyone and delighting in being wrong-footed at every turn . . . Clever, contemporary and thought provoking

  Caz Frear, author of Shed No Tears and Sweet Little Lies

• What a gripping page turner! Loved it

  Charlotte Levin, author of If I Can't Have You

• What an absolutely white-knuckle ride . . . It got so under my skin I ended up dreaming about the characters. Original, compelling, funny, smart — just brilliant

  Lucy Diamond

• Sharp observation, well drawn characters and cleverly ramped-up paranoia

  Guardian

• Compulsively readable, deeply unsettling and deliciously accurate – a long overdue skewering of Instaparents that I read in one sitting

  Francesca Hornak, author of Seven Days of Us

• A great contemporary subject, examining Instagram culture and the consequences of sharing too much of yourself on social media

  Press Association