Isabel Ashdown

Lake Child

• May-2021
• / Mystery
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33 Women

• Dec-2020
• / Mystery
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Little Sister

• Jul-2018
• / Thriller
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No one knows you better than a sister -- your dreams, your fears, your mistakes, and all your secrets. It was just that way when Jess and her older sister, Emily, were children. Born barely a year apart, they were deeply entwined, complementing e...

Beautiful Liars

• Apr-2018
• / Thriller
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' A gripping read from start to finish' Reviewer, 5 stars ***** Eighteen years ago Martha said goodbye to best friend Juliet on a moonlit London towpath. The next morning Juliet's bike was found abandoned at the waterside. She was never s...

Flight

• Nov-2015
• / General Fiction
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When Wren Irving’s numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn’t tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe goodbye, and leaves.Two decades later, Rob has moved on an...

Summer of '76

• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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It’s the long, hot summer of 1976. On the Isle ofWight Luke Wolff is about to turn eighteen, with hiswhole life ahead of him. Before sailing across thewater to start his first term at college, he is lookingforward to enjoying his last summer at hom...

Hurry Up and Wait

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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In her eagerly anticipated second novel, Mail on Sunday Novel Competition winner Isabel Ashdown explores the treacherous territory of adolescent friendships, and traces across the decades the repercussions of a dangerous relationship. In August 1985,...

Glasshopper

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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At once troubling, funny, and joyous, this is an intimate, lyrical, and deeply moving novel of an ordinary family crumbling under the weight of past mistakes. Isabel Ashdown's captivating debut vividly brings to life the gentility of a 1950s childhoo...