Revenge is a dish served with lashings of relish in this vivid, blackly comic suspense novel, as three women fight back against an abusive partner. I cheered them on to the bloody end.
Louise Candlish, author of OUR HOUSE
A revenge thriller to make you punch the air in solidarity, <i>Sticks and Stones</i> is a wickedly sharp, psychologically intense debut which announces Jo Jakeman as a future queen of grip lit.
Eva Dolan, author of This Is How It Ends
Witty and satirical while illuminating a dilemma often faced by women when their marriages break up
- Marcel Berlins, The Times
It's not often you get a thriller that is just as good at keeping you on the edge of your seat as it is at making you laugh - but <i>Sticks and Stones</i> is both. A deliciously dark and gripping debut.
Emily Koch, author of IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE
Reads like a darker <i>Big Little Lies</i> with all the female rage of <i>Sharp Objects</i>.
Bustle.com
'A cracking book. Darkly funny, yet also touching and emotive' CJ Tudor
Imogen's husband is a bad man. His ex-wife and his new mistress might have different perspectives but Imogen knows the truth.
When he issues her with an impossible ultimatum, Imogen does something unthinkable, locking her husband in the cellar.
But how far will she go to protect her son and punish the man who destroyed her life?
And what if she's not the only one out for revenge?
A twist-filled, edge-of-your seat psychological thriller that fans of Cara Hunter, Lisa Jewell and Adele Parks will devour.
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'Gripping' Laura Marshall
'I couldn't turn the pages quickly enough' Fiona Cummins
'Plenty of twists' Guardian