Anyone recommend a great book with an unexpected twist please?

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The Judas Child by Carol O’Connell

The Breakers by Claudie Gallay
The Way the Crow Flies by Laura Hill
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson is fantastic and I ended up reading it a second time after finishing it the first time due to the twists.

The man who didn't call by Rosie Walsh. Brilliant twist.

'The Expendable Man' by Dorothy B Hughes, a 1963 novel. It’s a corker. The twist is so clever. But you can’t give it away to anyone who hasn’t read it!

A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon had a good twist! The narrator plays everything so simply but then you realise what she's done and it's brilliantly dark!

Cloud Cuckoo Land is very different but I loved the twist with one of the characters, didn't see it coming at all.

Thanks to other posters for their recommendations, I am making a list for my next trip to the library!

Great Expectations. If you don’t know the story, the plot twist is a massive shock. You can’t beat the classics. Anything that has stood the test of time is worth reading.

The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
A Fatal Inversion Ruth Rendell

Both made me gasp out loud.

I think if you’re watching or reading something you KNOW has a twist coming, it’s not actually an “unexpected twist.”

Reminds me of when The Sixth Sense came out and my sister said I should go and see it, it has a great twist at the end. So I watched the first five minutes knowing there was going to be a big twist at the end and wondering what it could be… bloody worked the whole thing out. Before the opening credits had even finished from what I remember.

Another vote for The Silent Patient! Thanks for the recommendations so far 📚

Fingersmith- ha- I had to re read the previous chapter to see if I had missed something!! I stayed up till 6am one night and read it all!!

Sarah walters- Affinity- another cracking twist in the tale

I felt exactly the same.

Fingersmith and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd are both 99p on kindle!

Thank you @Dashie …. (Wanders off to kindle land)

I found that incredibly tedious, but other book group members enjoyed it.

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Yes Fingersmith!

The Goldfinch. There were two twists I never saw coming though with hindsight there were hints for one of them.

I feel there are a couple of comments here that give the book away, but otherwise there are some really brilliant suggestions. I'm trying to think of a good 'twist' but I haven't read one in ages.

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult really surprised me.

Fingersmith is the twistiest book ever but I’ve just finished Tipping the Velvet. That’s less plot twist but the protagonist twists herself all over the place. It’s a good read.

Me too! I struggled through it and then when I got to ‘that bit’ I was beside myself!

My suggestion is I’m The King of the Castle by Susan Hill - I did this in A Level English and it’s still one of my favourite books. Couldn’t believe the ending.

The cuckoo sister by Alison Stockham, it’s a new psychological thriller about a sister who takes the other sister’s children. Very original

The Peculiar Smell of lemon cake ... the ending left me opened mouthed

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When I read Fingersmith and got to the twist, I was so shocked by it I had to put the book down and go for a walk round the block. It floored me! I think with Sarah Waters' writing you just become so utterly absorbed in the character telling the story that you take absolutely everything they're saying at face value. I love her, she's absolutely wonderful.