The Wrong Story
Moving Compelling Uplifting
“A gripping and emotional first novel - I was hooked from the first page.”
“An engaging page turner with just the right amount of thought provocation.”
“Lost myself in the story AND loved the insights into the therapist’s experience. Couldn’t put it down. I was completely absorbed mentally and emotionally.”
“I absolutely loved The Wrong Story. Lisa has achieved that rare feat of combining deep psychology insight with a clear and beautiful writing style that makes you want to read to the last page as soon as you can. One of the most enthralling and moving books I have ever read.”
As seen at Cheltenham Literature Festival
About ‘The Wrong Story’
“Who are you without your story? And what do you do when someone steals yours?”
How do you know that the stories you tell yourself, about yourself, are true? Where do they come from? What if they’re actually based on distorted memories?
Maggie is newly qualified, full of self-doubt and trying desperately to pretend that the dark tragedy in her past never happened. When a client, remarkably like her younger self, arrives for therapy, her carefully constructed defenses are put to the test. Add in a second client with a possibly violent past, then a third preparing to face his childhood abuser in court and the stage is set for Maggie’s emotional barricades to be well and truly breached.
L J Jenner, a retired psychotherapist, blends fiction and fact in this captivating story of identity, loss, grief and healing. Challenging themes are handled with delicate compassion, enabling The Wrong Story to deliver an intensely emotional but nonetheless enthralling experience. Readers are given a rare insight into what happens behind the closed doors of the therapy room and, crucially, into what goes on inside a therapist’s head. The clients may be fictional but the psychological theory and science are both real and astonishing.
About LJ Jenner
Lisa was a psychotherapist for fifteen years before moving on to help business leaders create organisations where people thrive. Now semi-retired, she loves reading, writing, travel and anything that gets her into nature or pushes her out of her comfort zone. This year that includes wild swimming, walking a marathon for charity, paddle boarding and hiking.
Her debut novel, The Wrong Story, is out in May ‘23
…and who would you be without it?