No Escape
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4.3 • 79 Ratings
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
*Don’t miss the brand new destination thriller from Lucy Clarke – THE HIKE – available to buy now*
A SECRET YACHT
A LIFE-CHANGING HOLIDAY
YOU WON’T WANT TO LEAVE
UNTIL YOU CAN’T . . .
Leaving the grey skies of home, best friends Kitty and Lana journey to the Philippines. There, they discover The Blue – a beautiful yacht with a wandering crew.
As they sail through sparkling seas and discover untouched islands, their old lives drift away on the current.
But everyone on The Blue is running from something.
And when a swell of secrets and lies threatens to bring the adventure to an end, some won’t let paradise go – whatever the price . . .
*Previously published as The Blue*
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Readers love getting swept away with Lucy Clarke’s destination thrillers:
‘Had me on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Brilliant . . . kept me guessing the whole way through’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Twists & turns galore, couldn’t put it down. Highly recommend!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Very clever and I was gripped throughout. Will be reading more from Lucy Clarke for sure!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘What a stonkingly fabulous read!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Hike was a Sunday Times bestseller for w/e 7/05/2023
Reviews
PRAISE FOR LUCY CLARKE:
‘A tear-those-pages thriller which is also a great meditation on female friendship . . . I’d travel anywhere in the world with Lucy Clarke’ ABIGAIL DEAN
‘Lucy Clarke gets better and better’ CLARE MACKINTOSH
‘Atmospheric, haunting, and beautifully writtent’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER
‘Lucy Clarke brilliantly transports readers. The chilling environment and the tense, unpredictable plot both sent shivers down my spine’ ADELE PARKS
‘A page-turning, twisty and beautifully written thriller . . . Lucy Clarke really is the queen of the destination thriller’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS
‘I drop everything for a new Lucy Clarke book’ ERIN KELLY
‘A breathtaking thriller of friendship pushed to the absolute limit – and beyond’ T M LOGAN
‘A thriller with soul!’ EMYLIA HALL
‘Lucy Clarke's great skill is to add real emotional heft to her twisty, atmospheric thrillers . . . A brilliant escapist read’ SUSAN FLETCHER
About the author
Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Clarke writes from a beach hut, using the inspiration from the wild south coast of England to craft her stories. Her debut novel, The Sea Sisters, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and she has since published A Single Breath, The Blue/No Escape, Last Seen, You Let Me In, and The Castaways, which was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Lucy lives by the sea with her husband and two children.
Keep in touch with Lucy:
www.lucy-clarke.com
www.facebook.com/lucyclarkeauthor
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this intriguing tale of nautical misadventure from Clarke (Swimming at Night), Lana Lowe, an Englishwoman who has resided in New Zealand for eight months, anxiously awaits word of The Blue, a 50-ft. yacht that has sunk far off the north New Zealand coast. In particular, she worries that Kitty Berry, her dear friend from England, might have been aboard. In flashbacks, we learn how the two women came to join the crew in the Philippines. At first, the voyage is almost idyllic, but on The Blue "everyone's emotions and opinions collided... building enough energy and motion to create an explosion." Relationships form and falter, and tensions flare with fatal results. Lana eventually leaves the boat and Kitty. As Lana learns the fate of the crew members, she also learns startling facts about them. Clarke handles the joys, challenges, and chores of sailing with easy confidence and does just as fine a job with her misfit crew and their easily upset equilibrium.
Customer Reviews
Life in the ocean wave isn't always paradise
Lana and Kitty want to escape for life in Britain. So they spin a globe and end up in the Philippines on a yacht (The Blue) with five other crew members. But one night out at sea after the whole crew gets drunk on Kitty's cocktails, a crew member goes over board with no witnesses. This starts to eat away at Lana. Will she find out the truth?
This is the second Lucy Clarke book I've read, having read The Sea Sisters a few years ago. This is in a similar format to that book, chapters of "then" and "now". For "The Blue", the "Then" is Lana's time on the yacht and the "Now" is the hunt for survivors after the yacht hit an underwater container.
I felt I was right there on The Blue and in New Zealand, going through the adventure and stress with Lana which is credit to Lucy Clarke's writing. I was drawn into the highs and lows of the passage to Palau and the horror of waiting for any news on The Blue's missing crew.
"The Blue" is a slow starter, I wasn't totally hooked until half way through. The first half is enjoyable but I found the second half more attention grabbing as the pieces of the jigsaw start to drop into place.
Thank you to Netgalley and Touchstone for giving me this ebook to read and review.
Utterly compelling
I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down. I had read the Sea Sisters and found that the characters and book stayed with me for a long time. This book has just done exactly the same.