The latest literary sensation ... It has people in a word-of-mouth frenzy I've not seen since Gone Girl ... De Vigan's description of a close female friendship is a compulsive but agonising read

Celia Walden, Daily Telegraph

This is that rare beast – a fine thriller and a potential literary sensation. Patricia Highsmith would have been proud. Don't miss it

Daily Mail

All writing is constructed on shifting sands, but I've never read a book that makes the complex relationship between reality and fiction both as visible, and at the same time so opaque, as here. I was captivated. Combining the allure of Gone Girl with the sophistication of literary fiction, Based on a True Story is a creepy but unapologetically clever psychological thriller that also aces the Bechdel test

Independent

If Simone de Beauvoir had written Single White Female with nods to Marguerite Duras, the result might be something like this latest Gallic grip-lit sensation

Joanna Briscoe, Guardian

A wonderful literary trompe l'ceil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling

Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her

A sophisticated modern take on an old trope (a film adaptation by Roman Polanski and Oliver Assayas is planned) … An unlikely mash-up of thriller and conte philosophique, Based on a True Story insists on the author's right to blur the lines

Evening Standard