Keep Your Friends Close

June Taylor was a TV promotions writer and producer for many years before turning to writing plays and fiction. She was runner-up in the 2011 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction competition with Young Adult novel Lovely me, Lovely You. Keep Your Friends Close is her second psychological thriller. June is active in the Yorkshire writing scene, including serving on the board of Script Yorkshire and taking part in Leeds Big bookend.

‘I loved the setting and characters in this book and wholly bought into their world. June Taylor is going from strength to strength’ Cass Green, top ten bestselling author of In a Cottage in a Wood‘A fabulously twisty tale … I absolutely adored it’ My Chestnut Reading TreePraise for June Taylor:‘Grabbed hold of me and didn’t let me go until the end. Gripping.’ Cass Green, Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of In a Cottage in a Wood‘Fabulously dark and disturbing … a totally compelling page-turner’ Yorkshire Post‘Beautiful and disturbing in equal measure, this is a brilliant debut’ Helen Cadbury'An unsettling tale of trauma that drives through the heart of a friendship. Compelling reading!'Jane Isaac, bestselling author of the DCI Helen Lavery & DI Will Jackman series’‘June Taylor's debut psychological thriller Losing Juliet is dark, twisted and utterly compelling’ SJI Holliday, author of Black Wood and Willow WalkA gripping tale, beautifully told, and with a shocking twist. A pitch perfect evocation of time and place. Unputdownable’ Frances Brody, author of the Kate Shackleton Mysteries‘June Taylor's edge-of-your-seat debut intriguingly weaves the past and present journeys of mother and daughter to a powerful 'be careful what you wish for' climax. The truth can come at a terrible cost’ Sharon Oakes, BBC Radio & TV writer, and Co-Chair of Script Yorkshire