Little Friends is beautifully written and suffused with dread. Jane Shemilt's compelling literary thriller explores with acuity the pressure cooker challenges of adult responsibility, and the assumptions we make. The domestic settings are seductively vivid and the final outcome is profoundly shocking and terrifying

Extremely clever, readable and elegant... perfect for fans of Big Little Lies. Domestic noir at its best

Intelligent, compelling and deeply unsettling. My kind of book!!

Little Friends taps into your darkest fears. Beautifully told, with a rich cast of characters, I couldn't put it down

Little Friends is beautifully written. I was in the kitchen; in the garden; on holiday with all the characters. And I was there at the fallout. Jane Shemilt has a talent for taking you into her world - but be careful. It might not be what you think...

The plot was breathlessly gripping, with an emotional punch that turned the last couple of chapters into a teary blur

Such a clever, beautifully written read that was tense and thrilling throughout with an ending that gave me goosebumps. Highly recommended!

A fierce reminder that control is only an illusion

A compelling, disturbing and beautifully told story. I loved Jane's debut Daughter and adored The Drowning Lesson but Jane has topped them both with Little Friends

Countless psychological thrillers get compared to Big Little Lies; Shemilt's is the real deal

Surefire suspense [. . .] riveting creepiness

A fantastically clever novel with some wonderful twists

Praise for Jane Shemilt

A compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending

We absolutely loved this

Thrilling

Builds layer upon layer of tension in a novel you won't be able to put down

Utterly gripping. A tautly-coiled spring of suspicion and suspense which builds to a devastating ending

A dark and twisty tale

Well-written, taut and tense

Taut and thought-provoking

Gripping to the last page

Suspenseful, brooding

Clever

The Hot List

Very rarely does a book like The Recovery of Rose Gold come along . . . this is a book that wastes no time in enticing in a reader and keeping them guessing until the very last page

Sinister and chilling . . . The writing flows beautifully and I felt like each character was confiding in me, trusting me with their secrets. I loved every bit of this thrilling story and the ending was brilliant and perfect. It's an amazing debut looking at the tangled web of a controlling mother/daughter relationship and a must read in my opinion

Taut, twisted and with two terrifically toxic narrators, this thriller offers a wonderfully wicked perspective on complicated mother-daughter relationships. Gripping

Striking. Unsettling yet compelling reading

It will make you laugh on one page, exhibiting the darkest of humour, and then make you shudder at the very next

A gritty story of truth and fantasy

Must read

I haven't come across two more unbalanced characters in books than this mother and daughter

Horribly riveting. At times I wanted to, but I could not put it down

Wrobel's claustrophobic debut explores the sinister subject of parents who deliberately make their children ill . . . Find out who's manipulating who in this clever chiller

Deliciously icy. Wrobel's cleverly constructed plot twists and turns, undermining any sense of integrity the minute you catch a glimpse of it

Absorbing, beautifully written

A masterful interrogation of a family's undoing ... and a ruthless examination of the pieces left behind

Dramatic and compelling ... a whodunit and a Greek tragedy all in one ... absolutely riveting

Nugent excels at creating a shocking story of a horrible family with huge issues and complexities that keep you hooked to the end