Worst Idea Ever

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Brought to you by Penguin.

The razor-sharp new novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author of Queen Bee and Faking Friends.

Best friends tell each other everything.

Or do they?

Georgia and Lydia are so close they're practically sisters.

So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her - but she also understands Lydia's not the kind to accept a handout.

Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer.

But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn't know her quite as well as she thought.

Georgia knows she should reveal herself, but she's fascinated by this insight into her friend's true feelings.

Especially when Lydia starts talking about her.

Until Lydia reveals a secret that could not only end their friendship but also blow up Georgia's marriage.

Georgia's in too deep.

But what can she save?

Her marriage, her friendship - or just herself?

Praise for Jane Fallon:

'The queen of the revenge novel' Heat

'She always delivers a fabaliss read' Marian Keyes

'Compelling, edgy, beautifully written' Daily Mail

'Hugely compelling and unpredictable' Ruth Jones

'Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit' Sunday Mirror

'Brilliant, with completely unexpected twists' Gill Sims

'Intelligent, edgy and witty' Glamour

'Romcom with attitude' Mail on Sunday

© Jane Fallon 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

I loved Worst Idea Ever. Another Fallonesque treat, possibly my favourite so far. Full of heart, humour and humanity. Great characters and a riveting story from the start. She’s so good at tapping into the best and the worst in us. Fabulous

Ruth Jones

Worst Idea Ever is SO GOOD! I read it in one mad gulp

Marian Keyes

We adore Jane Fallon’s novels, and this witty page-turner could be her best yet

Closer 'Must Read'

Brilliant, gripping . . . Emotionally intelligent and beautifully written

Daily Mail

We love everything Jane Fallon writes and this might be her best yet!

Bella

Fallon’s trademark warmth and humour is very much to the fore with this tale of friendship gone badly wrong

Connaught Telegraph

Takes us on a deep dive into the emotionally murky waters which exist between protagonists Lydia and Georgia . . . I adored it

Daily Mail

Ingenious. Her eye for detail, compressed emotion and the absurdity that lurks beneath what people say to each other, is unerring. Worst. Idea. Ever. strengthens her claim to be one of our very finest comic novelists

Tortoise Media

Funny, insightful, sharp, wicked, brilliant – Jane Fallon at her very best

Milly Johnson

Jane’s talent lies in understanding human behaviour . . . Another winner. You won’t regret it

Belfast Telegraph

Fallon constructs a nail-biting situation and has us turning the pages at speed . . . Fraught and fabulous, pacy and persuasive

Platinum

A razor-sharp tale of friendship and secrets

Rescue & Animal Care

Highly recommended

Sun

Praise for Jane Fallon

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Intelligent, edgy and witty

Glamour

Chick lit with an edge

Guardian

I LOVE her books. She always delivers a fabaliss read

A romcom with attitude

Mail on Sunday

Sharp and hilarious

Louise Candlish

She’s the queen of the revenge novel. Dramatic and engaging from the start, you won’t want to put it down

Heat

Brilliant, with completely unexpected twists

bestselling author of Why Mummy Drinks

Hugely compelling and unpredictable

bestselling author of Never Greener

Compelling, edgy, beautifully written

Daily Mail

Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit, this is smart stuff to race through

Sunday Mirror

Sparkling and unpredictable

Elle

Darkly comic and addictive

Daily Express

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