“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 … 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 Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
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This story kept me guessing till the end! Characters were well rounded and interesting. This is one of my favorite books of all time! I was disappointed when it ended.
could not put this down! really good!!
Interesting story, a little bizarre
I loved this book as it was very suspenseful. A husband is missing and another character has amnesia. A women finds a man with amnesia on the beach by her house and invites him into her home. The two main characters, Frank and Alice try to unravel his forgotten past. A family goes to the shore on vacation and one person dies and two others end up missing. How are all these events related? These mysteries kept me engaged and wanting to find out more. Great writing. I will definitely read more of Lisa Jewell’s books.
I am reading Lisa Jewell’s books non-sequentially, and this is one of her relatively earlier ones. This book does clearly show her progression as an author, and ability to build a suspenseful story. It starts out slowly (enough so it was not easy to get through the early pages — others of her books you know something interesting is coming but not this one), building 3 stories that you know will converge. One is that of a lost man, “found” by a single, unconventional mother in a small beach town. The other is Lily, a newlywed woman originally from the Ukraine, whose husband turns up missing. The third steps back in time to a vacationing family many years prior. How do these seemingly divergent characters fit together, is the “found” man the missing husband, is he a good man or a bad one? No spoilers here, but I found that the story built nicely as I stuck with it, and that I could not put down the last 100 pages or so. Enjoy!
I liked the simultaneous viewpoints converging seamlessly to create a contemporaneous mystery. Adroitly done!
I normally do not read many mysteries, but I had read another of Lisa Jewels books and this one sounded intriguing so I gave it a try. It definitely is a page-turner. I believe I read it faster any book I have read in a long time. She was able to make a complicated story come clear and developed the characters so well the story become human and believable.
I highly recommend this book, it drew me in from the very beginning. The characters were so well developed, I felt as if I knew them. I also loved how all the strings were tied up in the end and there was a definitive ending…the trend now seems to be more of a “stopping” than an actual ending. I thoroughly enjoyed every page.
I found this book to be an easy read even tho it goes back and forth 20 yrs. I really didn’t know how it was going to end until near the end. A bad thing happened to a very nice, normal family.
Extremely well-written. Well paced. Great characters. Not what I was expecting!
I was given an ARC of this book from Netgalley for an honest opinion of the work.
Alice spots a man sitting on her beach, staring off into the ocean. Hours later, he’s still there. When she approaches him asking if he needs help, he simply doesn’t know. He can’t remember who he is, how he got to the beach, or why he is there. So, Alice takes him in.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, newlywed and foreigner Lily’s new husband – the one she’s been married to for all of 3 weeks – doesn’t come home after work one night.
Without knowing it these three people – Alice, Lily, and the man Alice’s daughter dubs “Frank” are all embroiled in a plot two decades in the making.
During flashbacks to 1993, the author sets the stage for who the mysterious man really is, and what happened to him and his family during this time to cause the events of today.
This story was well plotted, well told, and even though I figured out who the mysterious amnesiac man was very early in the story, it held my interest to the end. This was a story about family loyalty and love, damaging secrets, and lies too terrifying to be believed.
I highly recommend this book.
The book bounces between present day with “Frank” and Alice at a seaside town and Lily, whose husband Carl has disappeared. And 1993 with the story of teenage siblings Kirsty and her older brother Gray, their parents and Mark the older teenager that has his sights set on Kirsty. I can’t say that this was an “unputdownable” book. I found myself losing interest at times, however I wanted to keep reading to figure out how all the characters fit together. Once that came about, I couldn’t put this down, but it took a while to get to that stage. The overall storyline was very good. Mark is not someone I would ever want to meet. 4 stars because of the slowness
An intriguing and clever mystery about secrets, lies and a decades-old murder, this twisty, page-turning book is highly absorbing. As always, Lisa Jewell’s characters are so well-written you feel like they’re real people you’ll meet when you’re out shopping.
This book keeps you guessing and fast read I can’t wait to read the next one
From the first sentence of the boo, I could NOT put it down. Loved it.
SO, this book is told by not one, not two but three POVs and you would thing that would confuse you, right? But every time I was reading from one character point of view and I was dying to find out what was happening to the other one and then when I was reading that one again? I wanted to find out what was happening to the other one that I had finished, it was like there was little cliffhangers every time you finished one character point of view which was so perfectly written.
The story starts with Alice, a single mom finding a man outside in the beach in the rain. Unfortunately, Alice has a soft side and a more soft heart and she goes and decides to give a jacket to the man outside, the only problem is that the man has no idea of who he is and how he got there. Alice knows she shouldn’t do it, but she takes him inside her house and tries to help him out. She gives him the outside shed and from there they try to find a way for him to recuperate his memory, but things are a little more complicated than it seems and as the days go by and he stills has no memory Alice and him finally decide that it’s time for him to go to the police but when that day comes?
Meanwhile on that same day that Alice finds the lost memory man, Lilly is a newly wed, newly to the country and her new husband never makes it come that night. The next day she calls the police and tells them that it’s unusual for her husband to not come home, the police is not surprise because he is a grown man and many things can plan a part for him to disappear, but Lilly pushes them and shows them the text he sent her an hour before he was suppose to come home so they promise her to look into. From there she finds out that her husband’s passport is a fake one and that the name that he goes by doesn’t exist, then she realizes that she never met any of his family or friends. She ends up getting a call from the only friend that he has and she ends up getting him to help her to find him. From calling one phone number then find one address, Lilly ends up at the same place and same coffee shop and Alice and her no memory man, what happens? Well…
The third POV we get is from this guy from a summer twenty years ago and about him coming to vacation with his parents and sister and meeting this other guy and things getting totally out of control until…well you have to read the book and find out what all these three characters have in common and how one summer changed it all.
This book totally got me in the edge of my seat, I was dying to know what the heck happened and if Alice would end up with her mystery man or if he belonged with poor Lilly. Ah, the questions kept accumulating but what I liked about this book is that you got all your answers at the end plus more.
4.5 out of 5 stars, totally recommend it.
The storyline was interesting, her writing is good, but not great. It was an entertaining read.
I was hooked by Jewell’s flawless writing style and how she crafts her story in such a masterful way. This book left me geniunely surprised, which few books do these days, and I found myself thinking about the characters long after I devoured the last page.
This novel was better than expected. I enjoyed the character building and surprise turns in this book
Loved it!