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"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." -- 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 Then She Was Gone Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author Notes
Lisa Jewell lives in London with her husband and their cat.
Reviews (4)
Kirkus Review
Three lonely people meet when their lives are in upheaval and learn they are also connected by a haunting 20-year-old mystery.Single mother Alice offers a stranger sitting on the beach in the rain a windbreaker, and, upon learning he has no recollection of who he is or how he got there, she invites him to stay in her guesthouse. Her children give him the name Frank, and Alice works to help him regain his memory and learn how he ended up in the north of England. Near London, Lily, a young wife from the Ukraine who has been living in England with her new husband, panics when he fails to return home. After the local police inform Lily his passport is fake, she begins to search for him to determine whom she married and why he suddenly abandoned her. These two stories set in present-day Britain are interwoven with a third story set in 1993 of a family's annual vacation to the beach, which takes a troubling and ominous turn after the 15-year-old daughter, Kirsty, begins dating a local 19-year-old guy, Mark. As Jewell's (The Girls in the Garden, 2016, etc.) novel progresses, the tensions in each story heighten as the characters must confront questions of whether we ever truly know other people or if we always keep part of ourselves hidden away. While these are not new questions, Jewell's page-turner approaches them in a riveting manner. Its numerous twists avoid predictability, and the novel is well-paced as it weaves the three narratives together. Toward the end of the novel, as Alice, Frank, and Lily meet and begin to learn who has brought them together, the plot moves a bit too quickly for a full explanation of everyone's identity and motivations. Yet even these too-short character back stories serve to circle back and reinforce the novel's central question: how much does knowing a person in the present count for? Dark and moody, this is a mystery with substance. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Alice Lake is 41, has three kids from three different men and a pack of stray dogs in a crumbling old house in Yorkshire, England. So, what is she doing taking in a stranger from the beach who has completely lost his memory? In London, Lily Monrose has been married to the handsome Carl for two weeks, and been away from her native Kiev for even less time. When Carl fails to return from work at his usual time, she can't convince the police that he is really missing. Until she does, after which she finds out he is not Carl at all so who is he? Woven between the two stories is a family vacation in 1993, when 17-year-old Gray gets a bad feeling from the too-smooth Mark Tate, who has designs on Gray's younger sister. The structure keeps the suspense level high, and Jewell manages surprising revelations all the way up to the ending. The mix of women's fiction and suspense plus a no-nonsense 40-something heroine at the heart of the story makes this a good fit for fans of Liane Moriarty.--Maguire, Susan Copyright 2017 Booklist
New York Review of Books Review
Jewell's novel explores the space between going missing and being lost. Alice Lake, a single mother of three, has a soft spot for strays and a history of bad judgment. So when she encounters a handsome stranger on the beach - a man who claims to have no memory of who he is or how he got there - she takes him home to her cottage on the British coast and calls him "Frank." Meanwhile, in a London suburb, a young Ukrainian woman, freshly married after a whirlwind courtship and new to the country, is searching for her missing husband, an Englishman old enough to be her father. A third story line unfolds more than 20 years earlier and centers on a teenage boy, on holiday with his family, who becomes alarmed when a handsome stranger takes an interest in his sister. How these three 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. A cottage has "nicotine beige" walls. A view through a window consists of "a necklace of fat white lights, and beyond that the silvery shadows of the sea." Alice is particularly winning: vulnerable and funny and self-aware. Inviting an amnesiac home for dinner with the kids can, of course, be awkward: "The four of them standing around eating pizza with a big scared man in a teenager's hoodie. Hard to know what to say really."
Library Journal Review
Alice, a single mother of three, finds a man with amnesia sitting in the rain on the beach near her house and invites him to stay in her guesthouse until his memory returns, despite warnings from her teenage children and best friend. Lily, a young bride from Ukraine now living in London, frantically searches for her husband, Carl, when he fails to return home from work. She learns he has a fake passport, prompting her to question his identity. The third thread of this mystery occurs 23 years earlier when the teenage Graham and his sister Kirsty meet Mark, an engaging yet slightly creepy young man, while on summer vacation with their parents. Kirsty, 15, dates Mark a couple of times until things turn scary. Interweaving these stories, Jewell (The House We Grew Up In) builds tension as she gradually connects the three tales. Helen Duff captures each character's distinct personality with an appropriate British accent. VERDICT Recommended for readers seeking a suspenseful, enjoyable summer novel. ["[Jewell's] characters are believable, her writing is strong and poetic, and her narrative is infused with just enough intrigue to keep the pages turning": LJ 2/15/17 starred review of the Atria hc.]-Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.