Have you read None of This is True by Lisa Jewell and are looking for a plot summary, a list of characters, or a place to discuss all your thoughts and questions? Check out my Spoiler Discussion for None of This is True! Edited to add even more of your questions and theories AND a comment from the author! And don’t miss Lisa Jewell’s brand new bestselling book, Don’t Let Him In!
Spoiler Discussion for None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
This book doesn’t seem to have a super-complicated plot, but then … it does. There are SO MANY questions at the end. This post will include:
Plot Summary for None of This is True
What Was the Ending of None of This is True?
Character List for None of This is True
Spoiler Discussion Questions for None of This is True:
- Who Killed Brooke?
- Was Josie A Victim or a Villain?
- What Did Josie Mean By “Making Changes in Her Life?
- A link to the bonus extra chapter released in 2024!
Plot Summary for None of This is True by Lisa Jewell
“Birthday twins” Josie Fine and Alix Summer Meet
Josie Fine is celebrating her 45th birthday in a local pub with her husband, Walter. There is another birthday celebration that night, a large and festive group celebrating the birthday of podcaster/journalist Alix Summer.
Alix and Josie meet up in the ladies room and learn that they were born on the same day at the same hospital.
Alix Agrees to Have Josie on Her Podcast
Alix has a podcast on women who have overcome hardships in their lives. Josie engineers a meeting with Alix outside her children’s school and asks if they can meet.
Josie then pitches herself as a twist on Alix’s usual podcast topic: she is a woman about to make big changes in her life.
Josie presents her “hook.” She met Walter, her current husband, when she was 15 and he was 42 and married. Josie insists she wanted to be with Walter and there was no coercion.
Alix, an upper middle class mom of two, is shocked. But her life is hardly perfect. Her husband, Nathan, seems to be suffering some kind of midlife crisis and stays out all night, drinking with his friends. Alix decides she could use also a change, and agrees to have Josie on her podcast.
There are many red flags surrounding Josie. Nathan shows Alix footage from their doorbell camera of Josie rifling through their recycling and stealing things. But Alix is determined to stick with her project.
Alix invites Josie and Walter over for dinner. Nathan is supposed to be there but again is out drinking. Josie is disapproving and suggests that Alix would be better off without Nathan.
Josie Claims Walter Attacked Her
In the middle of the night, Josie shows up at Alix’s house, claiming that Walter attacked her. Alix invites her to stay over. Nathan is somewhat disapproving of this.
Alix questions the school secretary about Josie, as their kids attended the same school. She also talks to the son of a neighbor, who is around Josie’s kids age. Both say that Josie and her family are very troubled. (This will turn out to be the best read on the situation in the whole book!)
What Happened to Brooke?
Josie claims, in an interview with Alix, that Walter slept with one of her daughter’s friends, Brooke.
While making Josie’s bed at her house, Alix finds a bloodstained key. She also discovers that Brooke went missing years before.
Alix and Nathan both tell Josie that she will have to leave their house, as Alix’s sisters are coming to stay. Josie does not take the news well, but does eventually leave.
When Nathan again goes out to meet friends, Josie follows him and overhears him complain about his “houseguest from hell.” Josie asks a co-worker to show up at the pub and try to lure Nathan to a hotel.
Both Josie and Nathan Disappear
Nathan goes missing. Josie also vanishes.
Alix gets a call from a hotel saying that her husband stayed there and trashed his room. A frantic Alix goes to the hotel, discovering links between her husband’s disappearance and Josie’s daughter Erin. She goes to the police, who head to the Fine home and find Walter’s body in Josie’s bathtub and Erin tied to a chair, unconscious.
The police call and say that Josie’s elder daughter, Roxy, has been located. Roxy claims that she was in love with Brooke and that her father never harmed anyone.
Pat (Josie’s mother) tells Alix that she was the one dating Walter, but then her teenage daughter Josie seduced him.
Alix goes back and listens to her interviews with Josie, who tells her that she’d be better off without her husband.
What Was the Ending of None of This is True?
The police find Nathan’s body.
Erin regains consciousness. She asks Roxy what happened.
Roxy says she will tell Erin, “word for word.”
Alix gives the key she found to the police, who discover Brooke’s body in a garage on Josie and Walter’s property.
Erin is interviewed by Alix and says that her mother used to tell lies, kept the girls from their grandmother, and kept Walter from contacting his other children.
Erin recounts that the night Brooke died, Josie and Brooke were fighting. Erin went back to her room and heard signs of a struggle and violence.
Erin recovers and moves in with her sister. Josie is still on the run. She sends Alix a letter claiming that Nathan’s death was a accident.
Alix and her children try to move on.
Josie reflects that it was Roxy who killed Brooke, and that Josie was just protecting her.
Character List for None of This is True
- Josie Fair: birthday twin to Alix
- Walter: Josie’s husband
- Roxy and Erin: Josie’s adult children
- Pat O’Neill: Josie’s mother
- Alexis “Alix” Summer: podcaster
- Nathan: Alix’s husband
- Zoe and Maxine: Alix’s sisters
- Leon and Eliza: Alix’s children
- Giovanni “Gio:” friend of Nathan
- Katelyn Rand: friend of Josie
- Sabrina Albright: DC (detective constable) in charge of the case
Spoiler Discussion Questions for None of This is True
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Here are my questions from the book + many of yours!
First off, is Josie in One of This is True a victim or a psychopath? Or both?
After reading the comments on this post (which I highly recommend) I am realizing that Josie is like an optical illusion. Like that 2015 dress that some people were positive was white and gold and others insisted was blue and black.
While I can’t agree that Josie didn’t do anything wrong, reading your comments has made me see that some of what she says (or thinks) is true.
In my opinion, Josie’s pattern is to become fixated on people (like Walter, Alix) and then get jealous of people who get in the way of her “relationships.”
Josie also wants to be the only one to set the narrative. She doesn’t want Alix talking to anyone but her. Not her mother, not Walter, not Brooke or her daughters.
And I do think she was responsible for Walter’s death and for Nathan’s.
Let’s take these questions one by one and PLEASE give me your take in the comments. Make your case and I am open to changing my mind!
Was Josie groomed and abused by Walter?
Walter is not a great guy. In the very best case scenario, he was a married forty-something man who left his wife and children to marry an eighteen year-old. He admits that there was a ten year age gap between him and his first wife, and there was a nearly twenty-year age gap between Josie and Walter.
If Pat is telling the truth about being involved with Walter before Josie, then Walter did have a more age-appropriate relationship with Pat.
I think that there is definitely an argument that Walter was a groomer/abuser of Josie. Josie denies this in her June 20 interview, but I think that is a common perception of abuse victims.
But I’m not sure there is enough evidence to say that Walter was either sleeping with Brooke or abusing Erin. More on my theories on that below.
Who Killed Brooke in None of This Is True?
I was on board with Josie killing Brooke but based on your comments I now think it might have been both Walter and Josie together.
EDITED: Nope, Lisa Jewell, in this Shondaland interview, suggests it was Roxy!
In Erin’s Netflix interview, she says that Josie was jealous of Brooke’s relationship with Roxy. When Roxy ran away, Brooke told Josie that Roxy was running away from her and didn’t love her. Then, according to Erin, there were noises, of a struggle and violence. BUT (as it’s pointed out in comments) this story could have been fed to Erin (who is rather naive and impressionable) by Roxy.
Did Walter sleep with Brooke?
Josie says this happened and given Walter’s history, it’s possible. BUT Brooke was 16 at the time and (if my math is correct) that would have made Walter 65.
So I’m skeptical. Walter is (sorry) a bit weird and, like Josie, seems beaten down by life. Brooke’s mom says how “bolshy” (feisty) she was. I just don’t see it.
Plus, if this were the case, why wouldn’t Roxy be furious at Walter as well as Brooke? Clearly she is not at ALL angry with him. I’m voting no, but what do you think?
What was the cause of the violent argument between Roxy and Brooke?
Josie said that Roxy hit Brooke when she found out that Brooke slept with Walter. Roxy says it was because Brooke said something derogatory about Erin. To me, neither is credible.
I think maybe Roxy was upset because she had introduced Brooke to her family as her girlfriend, while Brooke’s family didn’t know anything about Roxy. But that’s just a wild theory.
My (and Your) Theories on Who Killed Brooke
Great theories below, but Lisa Jewell’s interview, linked above, suggests that Roxy killed Brooke.
Also in the bonus chapter, Roxy admits that she flew into a rage when Brooke went to the prom without her. Erin believes that is when Roxy killed Brooke
Just for posterity, here were our theories before Lisa Jewell set the record straight.
I was convinced that Roxy did NOT kill Brooke. Yes, Roxy definitely had violent tendencies. But according to Erin, Roxy wasn’t home at the time and I don’t think Erin has a reason to lie about that. It’s more risky for Erin to blame her parents. (For the record, I was wrong about this!! And Erin is clearly more scared of Roxy.)
I thought Walter and Josie were both involved. Josie’s mother says that Walter and Josie are “both as bad as each other.” (I guess I was right about this at least.)
Maybe Walter had been rejected by Brooke and/or Josie was jealous of Brooke’s closeness to Roxy. Maybe Josie fixated on Brooke the same way she did on Alix (someone makes the excellent point in comments that Josie tends to steal things from people she’s obsessed with, and she stole Brooke’s phone case).
Dapple (in comments) has a really intriguing theory on Brooke: that Josie killed Brooke and then told Walter that Roxy did it. Walter, wanting to protect Roxy, helped Josie hide the body. That would explain a) what Erin heard, b) Walter not wanting to go to the police and c) Josie saying she has to tell Alix “what we did,” meaning she wanted to tell Alix that they covered up Roxy’s crime. I like this theory a lot, even though it’s isn’t what the author intended.
Who Killed Walter in None of This is True?
Again, Erin says it was her mother Josie. I’m not sure who else it could be.
Erin says that Walter and Josie fought, and when Erin came into the room, Walter was lying on the floor bleeding. Josie refused to call an ambulance. Then Erin hit her mother (which is why Josie ended up looking battered at Alix’s.) When Erin woke up, she was tied to a chair.
Josie could say that she was suffering from battered woman syndrome, but why tie her daughter to a chair, the daughter she claims was being abused by Walter? To me, this shows Josie was lying.
Could Roxy have killed Walter and Erin?
I don’t think so. After Josie flees the scene of whatever happened, Alix repeatedly asks Josie if Erin is okay and Josie says she is.
Who Killed Nathan in None of This is True?
We all agree that it was Josie, right? Any other plausible theories?
Josie claims she didn’t mean to do it. That she got Katelyn to get Nathan to the hotel room, then she kidnapped Nathan, gave him too much sedative and he died. But why did she kidnap him in the first place? Just getting him to do drugs in a hotel room with a strange blond woman should have been enough to get Alix to dump him.
Plus she had all those weird conversations with Alix about how much better off she’d be if he was dead. So I’m not sure I buy her story that it was an accident.
What was Josie’s Endgame?
Let’s think back to what Josie says when she first meets Alix and is trying to get on her podcast. She says that she’s been living the same life for thirty years and if she doesn’t break free of the past now, when will she?
Josie tells Alix she is planning “big changes.” Did that mean ditching her current family? If that was what she meant, she could just run off and leave Erin with Walter. By killing Walter, she’s the only caretaker left for Erin.
Was Josie’s plan to confess to Alix about covering up Brooke’s murder (she does present this idea to Walter, but he rejects the idea. Is this why she kills him?
I have to say that if I had covered up a murder five years ago, the very LAST thing I’d want to do would be to go on a podcast to talk about breaking free from my past. Unless I either wanted to confess or to be notorious.
What is your take on the ending of None of This is True?
Maybe you have sympathy for Josie? Many people in comments do! She did marry Walter too young, and her children were challenging, and I think her life was not what she hoped it would be. She’s envious to Alix, who seems to have a perfect life (except for Nathan.)
By the end, Alix calls Josie evil. I think what she did to Nathan and Erin was definitely evil. What do you think? Is Josie a victim or a villain?
In one of her interviews with Alix, Josie does reference the “clean break” that one of Alix’s podcast guests discusses. The guest says death can be a clean break.
Is this why Josie killed both her husband and Alix’s husband? To give them both a clean break? In her twisted mind, she thought she was doing Alix a favor.
Is none of this really true?
Why did Alix miss at so many red flags about Josie?
As I was writing up the summary, I realized how many there were. Yes, some of the interview transcripts were after the fact, but Josie was stealing things on camera. She was sneaking around. Her own mother said she was a liar. Nathan didn’t like her. She was clearly trying to undermine Alix’s marriage and get Nathan out of the way.
Alix felt a little smug, I think, about her perfect life and she makes a good foil for Josie, whose life is so chaotic.
Did you have other theories?
The plot of None of This is True was more straightforward than I thought and yet leaves us with many questions. I was expecting a twist, but I think it was a story about narrative. Who controls it. Who is more believable. How hard it can be to reconcile different versions of events.
Spill the tea, Fred!!! We know that you have all the answers!
Talk to me in comments and I will add your thoughts and questions to the post!
And check out my Reader’s Guide to Lisa Jewell’s new book, Don’t Let Him in!
I absolutely loved this book until the ending. I was waiting for more, and “turned the page” on my Kindle app, and boom! It was done! I needed more of a twist, or more of an in depth look into Roxy actually being the killer. It was odd how abruptly it ended.
I am a huge Lisa Jewell fan and at first I felt a little let down too. I thought the book was straightforward and that Josie was a pathological liar/kleptomaniac/psychopath who fixated on Alex. But the more I thought about the book, the more I saw in it!
Who was Brooke?
Brooke was the high school friend (and girlfriend) of Roxy, Josie’s daughter. She disappeared and years later her body was found in the garage that belonged to Josie and Walter.
I don’t believe the killer is Jossie. Hear me out:
Jossie steals things from people she likes and admires. She took the necklace of Alex, drawing from Alex’s daughter, and photos of Alex’s son. She never took something and locked it into her drawer from Nathan. With that in mind, to have taken things from Brooke to me means she liked her. Maybe she was the one having an affair with Brooke and her daughter Roxie found out and killed Roxie.
Josie’s husband told Alex, ‘ Jossie has an elastic relationship with reality’. This elastic relationship may have made her change the people and not the facts. Maybe the story about the bar and the vodka that her husband gave her and the whole grooming didn’t happen with him. Maybe she was the one who groomed Brooke, the one who had a relationship with an underage girl.
Another reason I believe Jossie didn’t kill Brooke was the reaction of her husband when she told him that she would tell everything to Alex. He was mortified and he didn’t want to call the police. If Jossie was the killer of Brooke, why her husband didn’t call the police and free himself and his girls from her manipulation? Why would he try and protect her? In addition, when talking to Alex, he seems affectionate when talking about his wife. I would expect him to be angry and resentful of his wife for killing someone and cutting the relationship with his daughters.
To add to this theory, I believe Roxie is the one manipulating the whole family. She is the one who at the hospital tells her sister the story she will narrate when she is asked about the night her father was killed. Why? What happened that night that Roxie doesn’t want to get out?
I also have a theory about the relationship with her husband. I don’t believe that man was a pedophile. I believe he was a killer. The other things that were found in her drawer may well be from her past. When she was young she had a person she admired. Maybe a friend or a family member. She took things from this person, she stalked them. And someday she saw a man murdering them. That man was the boyfriend of her mom. She hated her mom for thinking she was inferior to her, and not good enough. So, she has a revenge plan on her mind. To make her hurt, as her mother is hurting her all the time with derogatory remarks towards her. She will steal the man. She blackmails him… He doesn’t kill her because he would have been suspected as her stepfather. He agrees to her terms.
I strongly believe that her husband was the murderer because he knew exactly how to cover up for Brooke’s murder.
I love all these theories. I agree with some and not others. I’m going to add some more questions to the post.
I definitely agree the Brooke details are murky. Do you think Josie was the one who killed both Nathan and Walter and tied up Erin to a chair, leaving her to die? No one else could have done that.
I do not believe Josie’s version.
Roxy ran away prior to the prom; the night Josie killed Brooke. Josie told Walter Roxy killed Brooke and he gave the instructions how to get rid of the body; because he thought he was protecting his daughter.
Josie was an evil bitch.
Interesting. That would explain both a) why Josie had convinced herself that Roxy did it, and b) why Walter did not want to go to the police.
I think he probably helped her get rid of the body, though.
Other readers’ comments gave me a sliver of sympathy for Josie. I think Josie made a huge mistake marrying Walter. She was too young. A guy who will abandon his family for you isn’t a great guy. Then she had two very challenging kids. And I think she met Alix and decided she’d have a do-over by getting rid of Walter (and Erin) and thought she’d help Alix have a do-over too. I do think she’s a sociopath at the very least and thought she was doing Alix a favor.
I have one doubt with this theory. Why would Brooke have went to Roxy’s house in the middle of the night, after prom, if she hadn’t contacted her?
And also, I forgot this small detail:
Alix to Roxy, talking about the garage:
”And how did you get to this mews from your house?”
Roxy to Alix, answer:
”Like out the front and then round the corner and through a gate. But we also had a window in the bathroom that opened up on to it too.”
Alix was asking how to get to the garage here (not where it was in relation to the house). The only other time that this window is spoken of is when Josie explains how they got rid of Brooke’s body after Roxy killed her (by throwing her body out the bathroom window). If she wasn’t there that night, why would she think of this window as a route to garage?
I have a thought that was not clarified in the book. Why wasn’t Alice concerned about the safety of herself and her children when Nathan disappeared and after Josie made some threatening remarks in the last letter she wrote to Alix?
That letter was creepy and threatening and if I were Alix I wouldn’t be very happy knowing Josie was out there.
I am not sure about Josie killing Walter. I am 90% sure, that she did. But, there is one thing that to me doesn’t add up. On page 251/290 when Erin is in the hospital there is this dialogue:
We know what happened via Erin. But are we sure she is telling the truth? Do you have any theories regarding that?
Ooh, that is VERY interesting and I’m going to have to go back and read that part and think about it. “Word for word” is such a weird thing to say.
I guess it’s possible that Roxy did it and was setting up Erin to blame Josie. OR it’s also possible that Roxy was worried that Erin would say she didn’t remember and Josie would get away with it.
There are other facts that don’t fit with Roxy being responsible. After the attack on Walter and Erin, Josie shows up at Alix’s, injured and insisting that Erin is fine. And I’m pretty sure Alix asks if they should check on her and Josie says no. To me, that seemed like someone who was trying to hide what she did.
Also, why would Roxy run away from home for YEARS only to return and go after her sister and her father, whom she seems very close to, and do nothing about Josie?
Loved this newest Lisa Jewel novel!! I was so impressed at her handling of the issues of narrative, who controls it, and why/how we believe a version of events, as well as what it’s like to interact with a sociopath.
I think the only thing Josie DIDN’T do was kill Brooke! Erin tells the Netflix documentary that Josie did it and that Roxy had run away by then and wasn’t there, but Josie tells Alix it was Walter. Later, Josie remembers Brooke’s death privately, but her memory is very different from the version she gives Alix. In Josie’s memory Roxy killed Brooke and threatened that if Josie told anyone, Roxy would just say Josie killed Brooke. I believe this version because 1. Josie also remembers them calling Walter and him telling them what to do and I don’t see why Walter would help hide Brooke’s body for Josie but he’d do it for Roxy. 2. Why would Josie remember this version privately but tell Alix Walter killed Brooke for the podcast? 3. Josie WANTED her daughters to love her and she herself committed so many crimes thinking she was in the right/not to blame that I could see her trying to endear herself to/connect with Roxy by “helping” her this way. 4. I can see the sisters pinning this on Josie (and I don’t really blame them). Also, I actually like the idea that Josie was accused of ONE thing she DIDN’T do but no one would believe she was innocent because of all the things she DID do.
Oh, I really like this theory, which makes the book more of a messed-up family book, which is what Alix’s neighbor and the school people tell Alix – that the whole family is off. And I agree, I love the idea of Josie, who must have killed Nathan and Walter, also getting blamed for Brooke.
It also explains (sort of) why Josie is so drawn to Alix. Josie feels trapped with a husband she now doesn’t want and children she now doesn’t want and listens to Alix’s podcast, which tells her death can be a clean break (and sort of ok). She wants to come clean about Brooke, but Walter says no. So maybe that explains why she has to kill him too.
What I would like to have a few more clues about is why Roxy killed Brooke. What did they argue about?
On the other hand, if Josie did kill Brooke, my theory about that private memory is that many people with personality disorders (especially narcissists) are so expert at lying that they can almost gaslight others into believing an alternate truth, one that makes them look good.
Definitely agree about narcissists and we see this a lot in Josie’s memories! I only thought this memory might be true (probably foolish of me given their book’s title) because it was the only memory of hers that contained so much detail instead of just her feeling about an events and a brief summary of what occurred- this one had dialogue and was much more detailed. But it could absolutely have been Josie who really killed Brooke too- that’s what I liked about this book so much!
I can’t believe that NOTHING is true. Maybe the title is meta and is itself a lie 🙂
I still really like your “bad seed” theory of Josie being innocent of Brooke. Which also means that Roxy is the next generation of Fine family murderers!!
Hi! The author here! Happy to give you my take on the book, which is completely different to some of the theories proposed here! And might give closure to some readers who have struggled with the ambiguous nature of the book. Please feel free to ask me anything …
Wow, this is amazing! I am such a huge fan of your books 🙂
Thanks so much for agreeing to do this. I will see what questions people have and you can either check back at your convenience or I can email you a list and you can answer them all at once. Or you can answer any question in comments. Whatever works for you – we want you to have time to write new books for us to read…
Maybe an email would be good! And I would also say that Megan in the comment below is very much on the ball 🙂
Hi Lisa!
Not sure if you are following the hilarious Roman Empire conversation on social media but this book is my Roman Empire these days. I think about it so often!
Because of the interview format, there are so many competing narratives; just as I think I have a read on a character or a situation, I feel the rug pulled out under me, and I love it! I am stunned that Josie was being truthful in the epilogue but I think that is such a great ending.
I am eager to know what others’ questions are, but my big outstanding ones are:
What was your intention on the Walter/Josie relationship? It’s so hard to get a read on their dynamic, past and present.
Similarly, what happened between Roxy and Brooke? I feel there has to be more than that Brooke made an unkind remark about Erin.
Finally, you recently wrote a sequel to The Family Upstairs. Can you see yourself revisiting these characters in another book?
Thanks, and I hope other readers will ask questions or if they are too shy, that they will email them to me!
Hi Lisa,
I listened to your book as an audio book and I enjoyed it very much. I do feel the ending was somewhat open .. I think to a possible follow up? I can imagine Josie coming back to cause havoc in Alix’s life, or I can imagine Alix finding out that even though Josie is crazy, she was still somewhat right about many things.
That would be great! I just finished this book, loved it, and immediately went to my Goodreads to see if there was a second one written!!
On page 349 why does Katelyn quickly remember she is not allowed to hug Alix anymore. If she’s really Katelyn they have never meet. Is Katrlyn really Josie in disguise or a split personality of Josie? It sounds like Katelyn is a lot younger than Josie. I’m confused.
Hi Deb –
Not sure when Lisa Jewell will stop by again so I will try to answer. Katelyn says she is not allowed to hug anymore because that part of the book takes place in the pandemic. And yes, I think Katelyn is younger than Josie. They are former neighbors and were co-workers at the same tailoring shop.
Duh…I forgot they mentioned the pandemic had occurred, do I assume that is why.
lol sorry I called you Carrie! Edited to fix. Yes, that is why.
Just found this interview with Lisa Jewell where she says the ending is NOT ambiguous and that Josie reveals the TRUTH! So Roxy killed Brooke and Josie and Walter covered it up.
https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a44704113/lisa-jewell-discusses-her-latest-thriller-none-of-this-is-true/
“Some people could read the ending to be ambiguous or open; a lot of people have read it as I intended it to be — not ambiguous or open — which is Josie finally confronting the truth in her head of what actually happened. But I didn’t work out until a long time after I’d written the book precisely what Josie was hiding, and what was true and what wasn’t. And then to realize, weeks after writing the book, that it was all in there. I put it all in there without really knowing what it was while I was writing it.”
”I got to the end of the book, and I wrote, I think, three other epilogues. None of them did the trick because at that point I still didn’t really understand what happened. I didn’t really understand what Josie was lying about and what was true and what wasn’t. I was as much in the dark as a reader. And it was literally as I was writing those last few paragraphs, when her mind starts wheeling backwards in time and she’s remembering what happened on that particular night, I suddenly saw it. I thought, “Oh, my God, of course! It totally makes sense. Of course, it wasn’t x; it was y.” And I realized when I looked back into the narrative that all those moments were already there. I’d already put all these moments in that made sense of what Josie reveals in the last few paragraphs of the book. So, that was absolutely nothing that I had in mind or planned or thought about. I was kind of desperate at that time. I was thinking, “I’m not going to find the ending to this book. I’m not finding the ending to this book.” And then it found me. It was like a miracle.”
Thanks so much – it’s so funny how we all had such different perceptions of Josie.
Because of Josie’s prior behavior (the stealing and the way she treated Walter and Erin) and the things that others had said about her, I assumed she was dishonest, but I guess even liars are truthful sometimes!