In fact, the truth-revealed with enormous teasing skill-is packed with more twists, and genuine sadness, than anybody could possibly expect.Īdmittedly, the book does have moments of contrivance-but they’re exceptionally well-contrived. Meanwhile in Surrey, a wife is reporting the disappearance of her handsome fortysomething husband to the police.Īt this stage, people who haven’t read Jewell before may think they realise what’s going on. I Found You is an intriguing, clever and interesting mystery with secrets, lies and plenty of suspense that starts off a little slow and on the lighter side and then turns more darker as we learn more about the intriguing. His name is… well, he doesn’t know, because he’s suffering from severe amnesia that also means he doesn’t know why he’s there or where he’s come from. I Found You is my first book by Lisa Jewell and she is now on my radar and I will be looking at more of her books to read. In the classic manner, the central character Alice is slightly chaotic but fundamentally good-hearted-and in this case living on the Yorkshire coast with her three children.īy the third page, the plot is already under way, when she spots a handsome fortysomething man sitting on the beach. Her first novel, Ralphs Party, was the best- selling debut novel of 1999. I Found You is a high-class combination of popular women’s fiction (the genre formerly known as 'chick-lit') and gripping psychological thriller. James Walton gives us the lowdown on a book that had him "gripped".
Lisa Jewell is one of Britain’s best-selling writers-and reading her new novel, it’s not hard to see why.
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