but Lottie Moggach's approach - less doom and gloom and more wit and warmth - means that her two lead characters leap off the page * Marie Claire * Lottie Moggach's very modern thriller takes identity fraud to the next level. A brilliant debut that boldly heads into some very dark places. Books of the Year * Observer * 'I was gripped from the first page, moved throughout, and swallowed the book whole.' Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree 'Hailed as this year's Gone Girl, make room in your beach bag for this' Elle 'Unputdownable' India Knight A finger-on-the-pulse take on identity as an online life replaces the real thing. It's about women, families relationships, intimacy and love, and it's bang on the money: Moggach has taken the online world's pulse and called it perfectly' * Grazia * An outstanding first novel about a young woman who, with the internet as her ally, steers another woman towards suicide. Kiss Me First works as a coming-of-age story, as a mystery, as a psychological thriller, as satire - and as a fantastic read.

Not only is it acutely perceptive about the online world - all of it, not just the weirder end - but Lottie writes both Tess and Leila with a skill that borders on telepathy. Kiss Me First is brilliant, one of those books you read till 3am. Original, haunting and utterly gripping, Kiss Me First is an electrifying debut from a phenomenally gifted storyteller.This is a book for anyone who's ever spent any time online, and for anyone who feels they over-engage with social media. But as Leila is soon to discover, there is much more to a person than the facts and there are things about life you can learn only by living it. But if she wants to slip away from the world unnoticed, she needs to trust Leila with her life.Īt first, Leila finds it easy to assume Tess’s identity, and no one has any reason to distrust her. She’s read all of her emails, researched her past and asked Tess for every detail about her friends and family. Leila has never met Tess, but she now knows more about Tess than anyone in the world. Original, haunting and utterly gripping, Kiss Me First is The Talented Mr Ripley for the online age and the literary thriller that everyone will be talking about.

Listen to the prologue from the audiobook of Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach, read by Imogen Church.