I Found You: A Novel
"Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love." --Library Journal (starred review) "Jewell's novel explores the space between going missing and being lost....how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of the great thrills of reading Jewell's book. She ratchets up the tension masterfully, and her writing is lively." --The New York Times In the windswept British seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on a beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, newlywed Lily Monrose grows anxious when her husband fails to return home from work one night. Soon, she receives even worse news: according to the police, the man she married never even existed. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty Ross are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. The annual trip to Ridinghouse Bay is uneventful, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable--and it's not just because he's a protective older brother. Who is the man on the beach? Where is Lily's missing husband? And what ever happened to the man who made such a lasting and disturbing impression on Gray? "A mystery with substance" (Kirkus Reviews), I Found You is a delicious collision course of a novel, filled with the believable characters, stunning writing, and "surprising revelations all the way up to the ending" (Booklist) that make the New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Community Reviews
3.5 stars, if I could give halves.
It was a slow read, I found myself chasing any action, it caused me to skim through paragraphs, hoping my eyes would catch anything interesting.
If angst, and sulking, and painfully long details is your thing, then this is the book for you.
I was super delighted with the end, which is why this is a 3.5 not a 2.5. Everything was tied together and explained, I really appreciate endings where everything comes together.
It was a slow read, I found myself chasing any action, it caused me to skim through paragraphs, hoping my eyes would catch anything interesting.
If angst, and sulking, and painfully long details is your thing, then this is the book for you.
I was super delighted with the end, which is why this is a 3.5 not a 2.5. Everything was tied together and explained, I really appreciate endings where everything comes together.
Great story with an unsuspecting plot twist. There was a lull in the middle of the book that caused me to put it down and not resume the story again until a month later but I should have rode it out because the story pick up wildly again! Overall, it's a great book
One of the best books I’ve read this year! It was very clever the way the stories of the characters ran alongside one another building up as they did to eventually knit together! It made me both laugh and cry if a book can do that it’s well written! I love Lisa jewell anyway but this was up there!
By the end I had totally envisaged the seaside location and the grand house and the areas the scenes took place in like I was right there! Can’t praise it though!
By the end I had totally envisaged the seaside location and the grand house and the areas the scenes took place in like I was right there! Can’t praise it though!
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