People Like Her: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick

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A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Summer 2021 'Smart, gobble-at-a-sitting thriller about life as a yummy mummy influencer and the dark side of Instagram' - Guardian 'Brilliantly original' - Clare Mackintosh, author of After the End 'Deliciously dark and devious' - Red 'Highly recommended' - Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 'Gone Girl-esque' - The Times 'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' - Abigail Dean, author of Girl A People like Emmy Jackson. They always have. Especially online, where she is Instagram sensation Mamabare, famous for telling the unvarnished truth about modern parenthood. But Emmy isn't as honest as she'd like the fans to believe. She may think she has her followers fooled, but someone out there knows the truth and plans to make her pay . . . A deliciously dark, page-turning thriller full of unguessable twists and turns.

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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 Rock Paper Scissors and Daisy Darker
As gripping and addictive as Instagram * Daily Mail *
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
If you're a fan of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley, then this is one for you * New! Magazine *
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
Fast-paced and insightful * Daily Mirror *
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
A smart read * Stylist *
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
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
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
What a gripping page turner! Loved it -- Charlotte Levin, author of If I Can't Have You
Absolutely loved [it] . . . Twisty and dark, like all great thrillers, but very, very funny -- Abbie Greaves, author of The Silent Treatment
Deliciously dark and devious * Red *
Gripping and caustically funny * Sunday Times *
Utterly addictive and gripping * Fabulous Magazine *
Gone Girl-esque . . . slick and sharp * The Times *
Sharp observation, well drawn characters and cleverly ramped-up paranoia * Guardian *
A real page-turner * Bella Magazine *
We couldn't put this book down. A brilliant read * Closer *
A slick thriller about the perils of putting oneself in the social spotlight * Evening Standard *

Author Bio

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, the former features editor at Stylist, content director of Elle and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Sunday Times as well as two travel books. Paul is the author of Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey. People Like Her is their first novel.