The Hike: The Sunday Times bestseller and brand new crime thriller novel for 2023 from the author of One of the Girls

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Four lifelong friends embark on a challenging 4-day hike in Norway, each with their own secrets and personal issues. It says that some relationships between siblings may have some very dark and deep undercurrents that people swimming on the surface would rather not know about. It was then that she decided to set up Bright Green Enterprise, her own company that worked with secondary schools delivering social enterprise events. The power, beauty and fear inspired by those Norwegian mountains feels utterly real, as do the emotions and physical demands they impose.

Our main characters - old school friends Maggie, Liz, Helena and Joni catch up each year for their annual one week away together to reconnect and catchup. You might catch me on an early morning walk/jog with my pup once in a while, but out in the wilderness, no thanks.This is also the first time I've read a Lucy Clarke, and I'd def visit her backlist if I'm in the need for a similar read. The crew of the pleasure boat is composed of young travelers with wanderlust and it is not long before the two girls’ dream of romance comes true. This time around, not only was that true, but with each revelation, something else was twisted to reveal a new puzzle filled with just as much intensity. Four women who are the closest of friends take a girls trip every year and this year they choose something different which will be out of their comfort zones. It is a 630-mile route that starts in Minehead in Somerset and follows the coast of Devon and Cornwall, ending in Poole Harbour in Dorset.

Lucy Clarke’s novel “The Blue” is a spine-tingling adventure work in the tradition of “The Beach” by Alex Garland. This psychological thriller will keep you glued to the pages and take you away to the Norwegian mountains where you'll feel you are hiking along with the four main characters of this book, Liz, Maggie, Helena and Joni who are lifelong friends going off on their annual holiday. The atmosphere is very good, the Norwegian setting provides and adds a great deal of mood and ambience to the developing drama.I wish to thank HarperCollins Australia for providing me with a free copy of this book for review purposes. This is only the second book I’ve read of Clarke’s, (the other being One of the Girls, published in 2022) which had a similar theme around old friends; besties and frenemies. While I own 2 other books by Clarke, this is the first that I've actually read, and I can say with certainty that she has a new fan in me!

Also, this book reinforced that sitting on your couch and reading about hiking is much better than actual hiking. Except at night it was even worse, because by then you were too tired to think rationally and everything became magnified, distorted. Another thing that puzzled me was the very short sentence one of the culprits got, I know Norwegian prisons are more luxurious than most, but surely the judicial system still punishes criminals for serious offences?It slows us down and immerses us deeply in nature’: the author Lucy, with her husband James and their children, Tommy and Darcy.