A very enjoyable read! I liked that it was set in two different timelines and the array of characters kept drawing me back each night. It was a good premise and the beginning chapter promised lots of intrigue and the novel didn't disappoint! My only disappointment was the writing style which was a little simplified for my taste but nonetheless, the story held my attention all the way to the end.

A very enjoyable read, the story of a family and its difficulties during the WW2. It is a story of love, murder and relationships. I found it very interesting. Loved the setting of Sidmouth.


I wlil post the review on Waterstones

This was the first Jane Corey book that I had read.
I struggled to get into this one, it has the bones of a compelling and thrilling read unfortunately for me it was a let down, it felt rushed in places and a bit jumbled.
The duel time line was good and I much prefered reading about the 1940s timeline I found that one more thrilling.
The characters were well drawn, Nancy who is current timeline main character was a bit frustrating at times but Elizabeth was fantastic.
I rate this one 3 I would give another Jane Corey book a read.
Thank-you to Netgalley and penguin books for an arc in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.

I really enjoyed the short chapters in this book. With several timelines , this one has a historical timeline which made it very interesting to read. The only thing I didnt like was the ending. I felt it was rushed.

I have always enjoyed novels written by Jane Corry and this was a super read.

We meet main character, Nancy who's stepbrother Martin has just been convicted of killing Nancy's' mum and stepfather, Duncan.

Nancy, having called off her engagement to Alex decides to go it alone and head to Tall Chimneys, a house that her mother owned in Sidmouth. Nancy is aware that she has no protection around her and is on a countdown to the journalists knocking at her door.

She meets a few neighbours and really bonds with them. The story is told in dual timelines, from Nancy's perspective and previous residents of Tall Chimney, Elizabeth. Elizabeth's story is based in war time many years ago and made for an extremely and unique dual read. Obviously their stories entwine and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about both of these women.

Martin starts to get in touch with Nancy and she is scared as she is hiding an awful secret and is guilt ridden.

I found this novel to be really fast paced and an enjoyable read, especially if you like some twists and turns in your reads.

Thanks to Netgalley, Jane Corry and the publishers for allowing me a copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Fantastic book

The story is based around the he event that happen in a house. The house ‘Tall chimneys’ could tell a tale or two. There is Nancy from the present day she needs to
escape, a place to hid. She now owns Tall chimneys. Then there is Elizabeth and she lived in tall chimneys during the war. Elizabeth is Nancys great grandmother’s best friend and the owner of the house at that time.

The story goes from present day to wartime telling the secrets that they two women have.

The book kept me guessing and had me wanting to know more. I couldn’t put it down. I felt like I was living the lives with the women at times.

Not read this author before but will certainly look for more

Thank you netgalley for this ARC

It is difficult to pigeonhole this novel from the excellent Jane Corry; yes, it is a crime thriller but it is also a family saga combined with historical account, and the strands all hold together well. When Nancy is forced to go into hiding in her family's boarding house, she becomes fascinated by the tales it has to tell, while simultaneously dealing with her precarious existence. Wonderful!

A compelling domestic suspense novel that also manages to tell a story of families surviving across the ages.

After her mum and step-dad are murdered, and step-brother Martin sentenced for their deaths, Nancy realises she has to disappear. She flees to her mother's old family holiday home in Devon, where she tries to make peace with the past.

The old holiday home has secrets too - and this is where the reader is introduced to a second point-of-view set in the 1940s during the war. At first I almost rolled my eyes at this. 'I don't want to read this story!' I thought to myself - I wanted the contemporary suspense. But the story quickly grew on me and became one of my favourite parts of the book. It's about what drives us to keep going in adversity, about what 'doing what's right' really means.

Nancy's story is enjoyable too, as what really happened on the fateful night of the deaths is doled out to us in chunks. I thought Corry had the balance right in stringing the story out and not making the reader wait too long.

Thankfully, she wasn't a character prone to too many poor decisions (as so many in suspense novels are) and I liked learning more about her new community as Nancy rebuilt her strength and confidence.

A satisfying read.

Enjoyed this latest book from Jane Corry.
There were two stories set in two different times, each with a strong determined woman at the helm of each story. It was intriguing and the lives of the two women who both had their secrets came together well.
Thank you to Netgalley, Jane Corry, Penguin General UK - Fig Tree, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Penguin Life, Penguin Business, Penguin for an ARC in return for an honest review.

A gripping story of a woman called Nancy who when her mother & step father are murdered by her step brother and the trial is splashed all over the papers she escapes to the seaside place her mother left to her.
She hopes to start a new life where no one can find her but someone knows what happened on the night of the murders.
I loved how the tension builds and I felt myself willing Nancy to find the truth and was on tenterhooks with all the twists and a surprising ending, I finished the book in 2 days and look forward to reading more Jane Corry books.
Thanks to NetGalley & Penguin General UK for the ARC for a honest review.

This book was okay. Standard Jane Corry. I learnt a lot about the war from this book but did have a moan because I’m not really into historical fiction.

Felt the breadcrumbs for Nancy’s reveal was waaaay too frequent (show, don’t tell) and thought hers was a massive overreaction.

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* ARC from Netgalley *

I usually love this authirs books but found this really hard to get into and engage with,its was all pretty dreary and depressing at the start amd found it hard to follow and ‘get intio’,apologies,look forward to the authors next book

Nancy’s mother and stepfather were brutally murdered, the crime and subsequent trial all over the newspapers. Some think Nancy was involved and has evaded justice, some want her to sell her story. Nancy just wants to get away from them all. She retreats to the seaside home that was her Grandmothers and is now hers.
Trying to take her mind off her present, Nancy spends time looking into the past of the house she has known all her life, and discovers secrets going back to the second world war.
But as Nancy is uncovering the houses' secrets, someone is determined to uncover hers.
Not at all what I expected, told from the perspective of Nancy in the present day and Elizabeth, who lived in the house during the second world war. It was like two stories in one and was totally captivating.

A great story with great characters that really draws you in from the first page. My first time reading books by this author and I will be looking for more books.

I’d like to thank Penguin General UK and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read ‘Coming To Find You’ by Jane Corry in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

Nancy’s stepbrother Martin is given a prison sentence for the killing of her mother and stepfather, and she moves into her mother’s house Tall Chimneys in the Devon town of Sidmouth to escape the reporters. Only Nancy and Martin know the truth of what really happened the night their parents died. Will Nancy be able to keep her secret or will her conscience make her speak out?

‘Coming To Find You’ is a compelling family mystery told at the present time by Nancy and reverting back to the 1940s as the experiences of life in Sidmouth during World War II is related by her grandmother Elizabeth. Throughout the story there are strong-minded women and the men who want to control them, and we’re told of how living through the War changed people’s lives. I liked how the characters were depicted and how the history of Tall Chimneys affected them in the past and present. The novel is a beautifully written drama that kept me engrossed from beginning to end and it gave me a special warm feeling for Sidmouth, a town I’ve visited many times.

An interesting read that keeps you guessing.
It is centred around the Devon house of Tall Chimneys and follows two main storylines. Elizabeth's based in 1941, alongside her personal story we learn about life on the coast during World War Two, also Nancy's set in the present day with flashbacks to previous events notably the night of her mother's murder.
There is enough happening in both lives to keep the reader fully engaged and wondering what would happen next.

This was a very interesting pair of stories, one told in the past by Elizabeth and one in the present by Nancy. Both stories have a lot of similarities both in the setting as they are mostly in the same house in Sidmouth but also the characters and their actions.
Both of the leading ladies experience loss in some way that changes their worlds and have a dominant male figure trying to control them. How they each cope with what has and is happening to them as well as in the world around them is an interesting story. Both of which weave around each other in a way that made me keep reading wanting to know everything that had happened and what was going to happen to these remarkable women.

This is a book that really draws you in to the lives of the characters. I really enjoyed the dual timeline as it was woven together so well. The characters are very well written and the setting is a character in itself. I know Sidmouth well and was pleased to find it described so well.

Tall Chimneys in Sidmouth, Devon, is a house that has been passed down through the generations. When Nancy’s stepbrother, Martin, is sentence to life for the murder of Nancy’s Mum and Martin’s Dad, she flees to the family holiday home to hide away.

She soon discovers that someone knows her secrets and that someone is coming to find her, but who?

This is a well written and enjoyable story, I was gripped from the first page. I wanted to know the secrets of this beautiful house.

Written with a dual time line, we flit between now and World War 2. There are quite a few characters but they are integral to the story and it doesn’t make it confusing to have all the characters.

As we peel back the layers to discover the truth, the story stands out to be one of secrets, murder and suffering.

This is my first book by the author and I will be looking out for more of hers to read.

My thanks to NetGalley and Penguin General U.K. for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

I loved this book. Jane Corry never fails to please with her psychological thrillers!
Nancy had to flee from London, and she was lucky enough to have an empty home that her mother had left her. Here begins the story. I'm not a spoiler reviewer because if I tell you, why bother reading it, but she makes some new freinds when she moves into Tall Chinneys, then she doubts if they are her freinds when she discovers something about her ex. She becomes a mother to a rescue dog and one of the constant themes running through the book is 'The Night of the Murder' where you get snippets of a very disturbing night. Her step brother starts to contact her from prison and its not all what it seems. While this story of Nancy trots along there's also a parallel story of Elizabeth in 1944. Both of the women's lives are very similar it appears and someone dies in each of their lives. This book was fantastic and I loved the twists and turns....there were lots and the ending was great!