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After reading her thoroughly enjoyable books "The Girls in the Garden" and "Then She Was Gone", I chose this atmospheric mystery, set at the beach, and I'm so very glad I did! This is a thriller/mystery that follows two women. The first woman Alice has three kids and she's a single Mother who lives on the beach. She she's a suspicious man on the beach and when she approaches him he says he doesn't remember who he is or what his name even is. In alternating chapters we follow another woman named Lily who's husband just disappeared only a few weeks after they got married and she doesn't know what could have possibly happened to him. Both of these stories intertwine in the most interesting way and this book kept me guessing until the end. The above two plotlines, which take place in the present, alternate with an event that occurred over twenty years ago, in 1993. The Ross family - mom Pam, dad Tony, 15-year-old Kristy, and 17-year-old Gray - are on their annual vacation in Ridinghouse Bay, Yorkshire - where they rent the same cottage every year. Lily has only been married a few weeks when her husband simply vanishes into thin air. Being in a new country, having never met her husband’s family face to face, having no friends to call, Lily’s search for the truth is daunting. Finally, able to enlist some help, Lily is baffled by what she discovers about her new husband.
character :- I have read that Lisa Jewell books are character driven if that's the case I didn't connected with any of the character , all their actions were based on their stupid and illogical decisions taken in past . Readers will undoubtedly speculate about how the plotlines relate to each other, and they'll probably be wrong. 🙂 I don't want to give away spoilers so I'll just say that things come together in a dramatic, well-wrought, and satisfying fashion. There’s something special about a book that can manage to be intricate and binge-worthy all at once, and it’s this intoxicating combination that makes Lisa Jewell’s psychological thrillers such a hit for me. WATCHING YOU—like all of the Jewell books I’ve read so far—is a story with an intricate plot and a wide-ranging cast of characters. It’s a story that demands you sit up and pay attention, lest you miss one of the cleverly-laid clues the author has hidden throughout the book for readers to uncover, and it’s also a story that ensures you won’t want to do anything but devour it . Jewell somehow manages to craft stories that are complex enough to keep you on your toes, yet accessible enough to allow the reading experience to be all pleasure, no work. In WATCHING YOU, readers follow a cast of deeply suspicious and intriguing individuals whose paths cross in a high-end neighborhood in Bristol, England—and puzzling out the intricacies of their connections to one another will keep readers wholly entertained. In WATCHING YOU, everyone has something to hide, and nothing is as it seems.Meanwhile, in a London suburb, a beautiful Ukranian newlywed named Lily is worried about her husband Carl Monrose.
The man cannot remember his name, where he is from, nor how he got where he is. This poses a problem – and a challenge. Alice Lake looks out the window of her coastal cottage and sees an unfamiliar man, sitting on the beach, just staring out at sea -- for hours -- in the pouring rain. She takes her three large dogs with her and goes to him, to see if he's okay. As it turns out, he doesn't know who he is, where he is, or how he got there. He doesn't even know his own name. So . . . all of this adds up to me, struggling with I Found You and believing it to be just another average, standard, run-of-the-mill thriller.
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In I Found You, everyone is a stranger. Alice is a refugee to Ridinghouse Bay, seeking quiet and solitude after a tumultuous life (both generally and romantically). Frank, by virtue of having no idea of who he is, is quiet literally a stranger to everyone, including himself. Lily as the recent immigrant is strange to everyone around her. Gray is the quintessential teenage boy, finding himself, but lonely and adrift in the way only teenagers can be. Carl and Mark are both strangers even, or especially, to those who know them. The plot/mystery itself. While still part of the 'stretch', the lone man on the beach with no memory did intrigue me. As the story starts to unfold, I felt the author did a nice job of revealing just the right amount of breadcrumbs at just the right time to keep me invested.
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