This week, we’re giving away three copies of Invisible Woman by Katia Lief. When a Hollywood scandal resurfaces a long-buried secret, former filmmaker Joni Ackerman is forced to confront the cost of her choices—and the unraveling of her marriage. As past and present collide in Brooklyn, and inspiration from dark fiction blurs reality, Invisible Woman becomes a sharp, suspenseful exploration of sacrifice, self-erasure, and the truths we try to bury. Here’s the blurb:
Other people kill their husbands. Not her.
Joni Ackerman’s decision to raise children, 25 years ago, came with a steep cost. She was then a pioneering filmmaker, one of the few women to break into the all-male Hollywood club of feature film directors. But she and her husband Paul had always wanted a family, and his ascending career at a premier television network provided a safety net. Now they’ve recently transplanted to Brooklyn, so that Paul can launch a major East Coast production studio, when a scandal rocks the film industry and forces Joni to revisit a secret from long ago involving her friend Val.
Joni is adamant that the time has come to tell the story, but Val and Paul are reluctant, for different reasons. As the marriage frays and the friends spar about whether to speak up, Joni’s struggles with isolation in a new city, and old resentments about the sacrifices she made on her family’s behalf start to boil over. She takes solace, of sorts, in the novels of Patricia Highsmith—particularly the masterpiece Strangers on a Train, with its duplicitous characters and their murderous impulses—until the lines between reality and fantasy become blurred.
Invisible Woman is at once a literary thriller about the lies we tell each other (and ourselves), and a powerful psychological examination of the complexities of friendship, marriage, and motherhood.
If you’d like to win a copy, simply enter your details in the form below. Three lucky people will win a copy!
Entries close midday (Syd/Melb time) Monday 26 May 2025. Winners will be notified within a week of the competition closing.
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