How can is be nearly six years since pretty Jane Lythell appeared right here in interview on Linda’ s E-book Bag? I’m delighted to welcome again Jane as we speak as we have a good time her model new thriller The Exes which sounds an absolute cracker and is ready for me on my TBR.
It’s an actual pleasure to speak with Jane all about The Exes. Let’s see what she has to say:
Staying in with Jane Lythell
Welcome again ultimately to Linda’s E-book Bag Jane and thanks for agreeing to remain in with me.
I slightly suppose I do know however inform me, which of your books have you ever introduced alongside to share this night and why have you ever chosen it?
It’s my fifth novel The Exes, and as it’s printed as we speak by Bloodhound Books I needed to speak to you about it.
Oo. Glad publication day Jane. What can we count on from a night in with The Exes?
Just a few goosebumps, I hope. And a quest to work out who’s gaslighting my heroine Holly.
The Exes is Home Noir and centres on a big and dilapidated Victorian home in Brighton referred to as Penumbra Home. I really like books that are centred on homes. I’m considering of Manderley and the anguish of the brand new Mrs de Winter! How the home grew to become a spot of distress.
That sounds creepy already. Inform me extra!
Holly Hilborne, is surprised to study that her reclusive aunt Lillian has left her Penumbra Home. Holly wasn’t even certain that her aunt totally authorized of her.
However when she sees the state the home is in Holly is daunted. She recruits two of her ex-lovers – Ray a builder and Spencer an artist – to assist her renovate the home. And when her quickly to be ex-husband James hears about this, he pushes her to let him have the highest ground to be used as his osteopath clinic. He agrees to pay hire and Holly, reluctantly, lets him transfer in.
Holly, now single, isn’t clear on her motivation for inviting her three exes into her home. Is she is attempting to create another household for herself? What may presumably go incorrect? Only one huge joyful household…
Ha! I wager!
After all, actuality intrudes. Removed from Holly’s shared home turning into a commune of 4 people dwelling in concord, darkish feelings are unleashed. Two of the boys battle like rutting stags to change into the dominant Alpha Male of the home.
As the home begins to come back collectively, Holly begins to disintegrate. She is suffering from dizziness, nausea, killer complications, and a bunch of unexplained issues taking place in the home. Is she imagining issues? Considered one of my inspirations was the 1944 movie Gaslight.
I believe The Exes sounds sensible. What have others thought up to now?
Three admired authors who learn superior copies have despatched me their ideas on The Exes:
‘The Exes is likely one of the most well-plotted and authentic premises in a home noir I’ve learn. How would any of us deal with three exes underneath one roof? Because the sinister plot thickened, I used to be gripped and located it unputdownable. Jane’s evocative writing is immersive and extremely readable. Considered one of my thrillers of the 12 months – I simply cherished it.’
Emily Freud, Creator of What She Left Behind
‘The Exes is a flip of the screw novel of festering resentment and rising horror. From the primary web page – the hiding of a physique beneath the sweeping branches of a fig tree – to the twisty ultimate scene, it’s a helter skelter of potential poisoning, manipulation, lies and the sins of ancestors that sweep in to say poor Holly’s sanity and perhaps her life. A wonderful learn, however perhaps not should you’re alone in an enormous darkish home.’
P.D. Viner Creator of The Name
‘Set towards the backdrop of a crumbling Brighton home, this vivid home noir blends present-day relationships with the darkness of the previous. Chilling, tense and compelling.’ Essie Fox, writer of The Final Days of Leda Gray
I’ve a sense I would have to learn The Exes when my husband is certainly at residence Jane. You should be delighted with these responses.
What else have you ever introduced alongside and why have you ever introduced it?
A favorite night drink is purple wine and I really like Nero D’Avola, a Sicilian Purple. It wants a little bit of cheese on sourdough to go along with it and a few olives. Holly is dairy illiberal so she must have humus as a substitute.
Holly can have my wine as I can’t drink it with out feeling in poor health and I’ll have her cheese.
March continues to be usually chilly, so I’d like us to sit down by an actual log hearth. However I’d watch out to decide on logs that didn’t carry the beetles that assault Elm bushes. The Exes is ready in Brighton which is pleased with its 17,000 elms and the traditional Elm of Preston Park (over 400 years previous) which options in my novel.
I’ve lived in Brighton for eleven years now. My earlier novels had been set in London however after eleven years I felt I knew Brighton effectively sufficient to make it the placement. I believe giving your novel a powerful sense of place does improve its actuality so the ruined West Pier, the quirky retailers of the North Laine and seagulls all make an look.
You’re making me wish to head again to Brighton. Haven’t been there for 23 years.
And I’d let you understand that, regardless of warnings from mates, my concept for The Exes was additionally impressed by the truth that I’ve stayed mates with three of my exes. Like Holly I can’t fairly let my exes go.
Oo. I believe I’ll give Linda’s E-book Bag readers a couple of extra particulars about The Exes and you may inform me extra about these exes of yours…
Thanks a lot for staying in with me Jane and joyful publication day once more. I can’t wait to learn The Exes.
The Exes
When Holly is bequeathed a big however derelict home, she needs to share her success. So she will get in contact with former boyfriend Ray, a builder who can project-manage the renovation in change for the basement flat. The spacious center ground would make a wonderful studio house—excellent for her buddy and old flame, Spencer. And earlier than Holly is aware of it, the higher ground is let to soon-to-be ex-husband James, who’s on a path of reinvention from metropolis highflyer to osteopath. What may presumably go incorrect?
However no good deed goes unpunished, and shortly the home is riddled with stress, rivalry, and petty spitefulness. And as Holly is beset with migraines, nausea and spiralling self-doubt, even the home itself appears to be turning towards her. However for somebody, the whole lot goes to plan . . .
Revealed as we speak, sixteenth March 2023 by Bloodhound Books, The Exes is obtainable for buy right here.
About Jane Lythall
Jane Lythell lives in Brighton, East Sussex, UK.
She labored as a TV producer for 15 years; moved to the British Movie Institute as Deputy Director; was Chief Govt of BAFTA for one 12 months adopted by seven years on the International and Commonwealth Workplace. She now writes full-time.
Her two psychological thrillers The Lie of You and After the Storm had been printed in 2014 and 2015 and had been USA At the moment bestsellers.
Jane’s debut novel The Lie of You has been translated into seven languages and impressed the movie A Working Mother’s Nightmare starring Tuppence Middleton and Rupert Graves. That is presently screening on Lifetime Films within the USA.
Her subsequent, Lady of the Hour, revealed life on the TV front-line by the eyes of producer Liz Lyon. It got here out in July 2016 and the follow-up novel Behind Her Again was printed in 2018.
For additional info, comply with Jane on Twitter @janelythell and Instagram.
