Fiona Neill Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Fiona Neill is an accomplished published author and journalist who has written multiple bestsellers. Her books have sold over a million copies all over the world and have been translated into 26 languages.

She grew up in Norfolk and was born in 1966. Fiona spent much of her time as a child on a farm in that isolated village and she still tries to spend as much time in North Norfolk as possible. She attended the University of Bristol in 1989 and graduated with a first class degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies. She would then go on to the Institute of Latin American Studies in London and get an MA in politics.

Neill then lived in Central America for what was supposed to be a year but ended up becoming six. For the first two years, she worked for an international refugee organization traveling in different areas and writing reports on refugees who had to leave their homes due to civil war.

Her debut novel came out in 2007 and was titled The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy, which was based on her Saturday column in The Times Magazine. The book came out to wide acclaim and would become a Sunday Times bestseller that would go on to be sold in 25 different countries.

She worked for a few years as a correspondent for the Reuters news agency based in Guatemala before coming back to the United Kingdom to be features editor for Marie Claire magazine. She would then become an assistant editor at The Times Magazine for three years before going back to being a freelance feature writer.

The Good Girl was optioned for development, as was her novel The Betrayals. Her Slummy Mummy novel was also an international best seller that was extracted in American Vogue.

She is married and has three children. She lives with her husband and kids in London.

The Betrayals is a 2018 book by Fiona Neill. When this book first came out it spent 6 weeks on the Top Ten Bestseller List in the Sunday Times and was also a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. It also goes by the alternate title, Becoming Strangers.

When a specific week on the seacoast goes down, friendships will be torn apart and two families will find themselves crumbling. There are many different sides to this drama in the family, so it will be up to readers to decide what they believe.

Rosie and Lisa are best friends and their families have always been so tight to the point of being inseparable. That summer, things seem to take a turn for the worse as Lisa decides to have an affair with Nick– Rosie’s husband. It will lead to a wild week that none of them will ever be able to forget on the Norfolk seacoast.

Relationships get horribly altered and friendships fall apart. Innocence is completely wiped out. Now years of silence have been broken by a letter arriving that asks for help while also exposing secrets. Then the fragile hold that Daisy, Rosie’s daughter, is holding on reality starts to fall apart. Max, her teen son, is holding himself responsible for all that went down that summer, while Nick has to deal with his own version of events.

Memories from the past start to come to the surface and start to influence the present as the truth starts to seem less and less clear to everyone. This story is told from the point of view of four different family members and asks whether some betrayals can be forgiven. Will this group ever be the same or have things been fractured to the point of no return? Read this book by Fiona Neill to find out!

Beneath the Surface is a 2019 book by Fiona Neill. If you have liked other work by this author or are just looking for something new and engaging to read, check out this novel and see what you think.

Grace Vermuyden had a very up and down childhood and now that she is a mother and has children of her own, she wants her daughters to live up to the dreams that she never achieved. There is Lilly who is loved by everyone. She’s pretty and smart and she never had to worry too much about her popular daughter. But when Lilly collapses in class, everything about Grace’s organized world starts to fall apart.

There are a lot of rumors going around their community on the edge of the Fens as people come up with their own personal theories about what’s been going on. Grace is paranoid and believes that she’s also seeing evidence that her daughter had a secret life, so she starts looking for clues.

Mia is left to her own devices at ten years old and starts coming up with some of her own theories. However, her belief in them could have horrible consequences for those that she cares about the most. What will happen in the end and what goes on when young children get caught up in adult matters? Read this engaging and dramatic story from Fiona Neill to find out in a book that Stylist says was ‘made for heated book club debates’.