![]() ![]() ![]() I Found You is an excellent contribution to its genre. I love books like this for a palate cleanser when I’ve been reading things that are heavier. It’s never going to be read for a literature class, but it’s not trying to be high literature. Two decades of secrets, a missing husband, and a man with no memory are at the heart of this brilliant new novel, filled with the "beautiful writing, believable characters, pacey narrative, and dark secrets" ( Daily Mail, UK) that make Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. I Found You is great for the beach or a dark and stormy summer night on the veranda. ![]() Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it’s not just that he’s playing the role of protective older brother. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. ![]()
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