Brilliant book. Excellent main characters and plot. I would recommend this book.

This was a good, suspenseful story, though I did question the way the author presented the ending. Instead of actually experiencing the ending, the author gives the reader a summarized version of events in a newspaper article. Well, that's one way to get out of writing 25+ pages. Maybe the author wanted to keep the antagonist at an arm's length, who knows? I just found it a bit jarring and feel it cheated the reader out of some potentially good story.

Such a well-written, engrossing read. I loved every page, regardless of the character or time setting I was currently on. And the ending made me cry! This author just gets better and better.

I really enjoyed this novel, much more than Lisa Jewell's last one. It's just plain good chicklit! The story draws you in straight away, has great believable characters and the author keeps you guessing till quite late in the book, making sure there are always some possibilities open. Came at the right time for me. If you need something light and relaxing with a happy end, this is it.

I really enjoyed this book - very likeable characters; good stories that merged together well. A sad story at its core, but still with a happy hopeful feel to it. I raced through this - a real page turner.

This book was pretty good. The characters are all very different, which I love, keeps things interesting! I admit that it had a bit of a slow start when we are getting all the background information from each character. But once the story was established, I couldn't put it down! I must have changed my guess of the ending with each chapter! I definitely would recommend this book

"Everyone has a secrets, what if you can't remember yours?"
That definitely got my attention.

Wow.
That was something else.
I am in awe of this author right now. She has done something that most authors haven't been able to do for me in quite a while. Lisa Jewell has successfully kept me in the dark for 95% of a book.
I had absolutely no idea! And I'm so happy that she was able to keep this air of mystery for so long.

Her writing is perfect. She paints a scene and describes a character without it seeming too much. It was always just enough. The characters were wonderful. ALL OF THEM.

I loved this book, but am a bit afraid of giving away too much of the story, so I will keep it short.
The book has three strands that come together at the end, no. 1 is Alice, a single mother who takes in a man who has no memory of who he is or where he comes from. 22 Years previously a family goes to the seaside on vacation and meet a young man who persistently stalks their 15-year daughter. Her brother is extremely suspicious of the man and at the end of their vacation, the family is broken, their lives forever changed. The 3rd story features a young newlywed Ukrainian girl, whose husband of 10 days disappears. The end seamlessly weaves the stories together,leaving this reader a happy camper. I will definitely read Lisa Jewell's previous books, from reviews I have read they're all excellent.
I would like to thank Netgalley, the publisher and Lisa Jewell for the eARC.

Alice Lake is a single mother with three kids to raise and her art business to keep her going. She finds a man on the beach near her home who has no memory. He is sitting in the rain with no coat has been there for awhile. She takes him in, takes care of him and eventually works with him to try to get his memory back.
Lily Monrose a young bride in a suburb of London finds her husband is missing and goes to the police for help in finding him only to find he has a fake passport which she did not know and he does not seem to exist. She has no idea what to do.
There is a family who goes to the seaside town where Alice now lives, for their summer vacation. We follow what happens with the Ross family in the last summer the Ross family are there.
This story has lots of twists and turns to it and a some surprises when it all comes together.

Alice is in her forties, living up north after moving from her home in Brixton with her children, leaving her parents suffering Alzheimer's in full time care. She is able to run her unique map crafting business in peace by day to keep her family afloat.
Derry is her best friend she met through taking her children to school day in day out and worries for Alice when she takes in the possibly forty year old strange man she has watched sitting on the beach getting soaked by the pouring rain.

Carl is missing and Lily his new Ukranian wife is clueless how to find him when he doesn't exist on police database as reporting him missing.

Carl has no memory of who he is but goes with Alice and so becomes 'Frank', the mystery man.

Rabbit cottage has been Kirsty, Gray, Pam and Tony their mum and dad's holiday home full of happy memories year after year.
That is until stranger Mark starts hanging around Kirsty and Gray becomes suspicious of him.

Throughout the book, the story is unravelled around twenty years apart in actions to consequences to date.

Highly intoxicating reading, mysteries and questioning ahead when you pick this book up, you have to!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for this review copy.

We meet Alice, a single mum living in a seaside village in Yorkshire. She finds a man on the beach outside her house. He doesn't know who he is or why he's there. Against everyone else's better judgement she takes him in and helps him put together the pieces.

We also meet Lily. Lily has only just come to this country, having only been married for three weeks. One night her husband doesn't come home. She's worried, frightened and all alone. She also begins to realise that she doesn't know anything about her husband....

In between these stories, we also have a flashback story to 1993. Gray and his sister Kirsty are on holiday with their parents in the same seaside village that Alice lives in 20 years later. How are all the three stories connected?

This is the best Lisa Jewell book I've read yet. The story gets you from page one and keeps you hooked till the end. It seems to start off a simple story and you think you have worked it out early on, and then there's a twist. You then think you've worked it out again, and then there's another twist! There's more twists and turns than a roller coaster!!! I don't usually like flashback stories, the flashback never seems to interest me. This one, the flashback story was just as good if not better than the main characters stories.

Gripping and thrilling - part of you doesn't want it to end, the other part of you wants to get to the end as quick as possible to find out what the hell is going on!! Would definitely recommend! Five stars!