I Found You – Book Review

How long have you been sitting out here?’
‘I got here yesterday.’
‘Where did you come from?’
‘I have no idea.’

East Yorkshire: Single mum Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement she invites him in to her home.

Surrey: Twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. 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. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed.

Two women, twenty years of secrets and a man who can’t remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell’s brilliant new novel.

I love reading Lisa Jewell’s books and this is the fifth or sixth book I have read from Lisa Jewell.

The story begins in Yorkshire where a woman named Alice finds a man seated on the bench by the beach. The man looks lost and confused and it seems that he has lost his memory. Alice takes him in even though her own children and her friend Derry were against the idea of Alice helping out a random stranger. What is this man’s past history? And what happened to him? Meanwhile in Surrey, a woman named Lily is searching for her husband who had mysteriously disappeared.

This was a fast-paced thriller. The story divides between the present which involved Alice and Lily’s POVs in third person form and the past in the year of 1993 which is the story of Gray whose sister starts dating a boy named Mark and Gray is suspicious of him. I just liked all those twists and turns along the way and the ending itself was completely unexpected. The chapters are short and easy to read, which is one of the reasons why I like reading Lisa Jewell’s books. I just like how Alice and the stranger, whom the kids named him as Frank, their relationship develops as Alice helps Frank to recover his lost memories.

Overall, this is a fast paced thriller with an unpredictable twist and turn. Worth four stars.