I voluntarily reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book via NetGalley. The descriptions of the creepy atmospheric scenes throughout this book perfectly fit the suspenseful twisty plot. Ms. Steadman plays on your heart strings as well as fires up your anger with the development of her characters in relation to the plot.

I was so excited to receive a review copy of this book. I read the authors previous novel in a couple days and loved it. The previous book was very fast paced, while this one moved along much slower. It took me a long time to reach the end because it didn’t draw me back in to keep reading. Although this wasn’t my favorite, I will read the author’s future books because I enjoy her writing style.

I wanted to love this book so much more than I did – because Catherine’s first book, Something In The Water, was a solid 5 star read for me. I found it to be a slow read until about 75% of the way through, which isn’t ideal for something categorized as a thriller, and that there were some unnecessary characters sprinkled in without much of a follow up. The story line had a strong foundation, I just felt that there was so much missed potential. That being said, it’s not a bad book, just a “meh” book in comparison to what my expectations were.⁣

Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is on top of her game. She’s working in London, helping her patients at a busy hospital, when the phone call comes. A man has been found on a beach in Norfolk. He had no identification, no phone, no memory, no name. And when Dr. Lewis’ mentor calls her to see if she could help, she jumps at the chance. After all, she wrote a paper where she asserted that patients with fugue, like this man has, is often misdiagnosed. This is her chance to undo the mistakes of her peers. This is her chance to prove she’s right.

But it means going back to Norfolk. Where it happened. It’s been 14 years, and she’d changed her name and how she looks, but still. If anyone figured out who she really is, she would have to change her name again, move away again, start all over again. Is this case worth the risk?

Emma decides that it is. The rarity of a true fugue patient, not someone who is lying and faking, is the kind of thing that comes along once in a career, if you’re really, really lucky. She has to do it. It’s the only way to prove her her theory is correct. So she goes to Norfolk, back to where it happened, to meet Mr. Nobody.

An incident at the hospital where Mr. Nobody is under the care of a nurse he’s found an unspoken connection with, unspoken because he’s not talking yet, and he gets the name Matthew. A series of tests concludes that he has no physical damage causing the memory loss or the muteness. Dr. Lewis knows it must have been from psychological trauma. With that in mind, she tries to connect with Matthew, and to connect him to his memories.

But then someone connects Emma to her past. And all her hard work, not just with Matthew but with her own life, threatens to come tumbling down. Emma has to decide if helping Matthew, if all her life’s work, is worth the threat on her life. When push comes to shove, what’s a neuropsychiatrist to do?

Catherine Steadman took the book world by storm last year with her debut novel Something in the Water. Now she’s back with her second thriller, Mr. Nobody, and it’s even better than her first. Mr. Nobody is a page-turner with lots of psychology and danger and characters you want to keep rooting for, even when they tell you not to. Don’t miss this one. It’s so amazingly good!

Galleys for Mr. Nobody were provided by Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine through NetGalley, with many thanks.

Steadman is so great at creating characters that you can't put down. Mr. Nobody is filled with mystery but in a way that doesn't leave you confused. It leaves you with a desire to read more and to finish it as quickly as possible to figure it out. It's an incredible novel and one that won't disappoint.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman. Steadman's novel takes the reader on a journey into the mind of a man who has no identiy. Emma Lewis is a doctor who specializes in studying the minds of people with a variety of malformations.
A man awakens on a beach - he has no identification on him and does not speak. He may be a great test case and Emma is called upon to find out what is wrong with the mysterious man. But Emma brings her own baggage to the case and she has a past that is just as mysterious as this unknown man.
Emma's past comes to the surface as she tries to help this memorizing man - and soon she finds that maybe meeting this man, treating his illness, and working with him has an elusive feeling and this is not a coincidence.
Good book - 3 stars.

Happy pub day to Mr. Nobody! Thank you @netgalley for the ARC. I loved this book and flew through it. Finally a thriller that does memory loss well. Will be recommending.

I so wanted to love this book but sadly it wasn’t meant to be, I liked the first part but the ending was so unbelievable I just kept shaking my head, I loved this authors first book and will definitely look for her next one. Thanks to netgalley and publisher for this arc in exchange of an honest review.

I was excited for the opportunity to read this book since I loved the author's book Something in the Water so much. Sadly, I didn't really enjoy this one - it was painfully slow for me and I struggled to finish it.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Ballantine Books, and Catherine Steadman for the opportunity to read and review her sophomore book - I really enjoyed her first, Something in the Water, and this one was a good follow up.

A man is found on a beach with a head injury, no shoes and no knowledge of his name or background. He is taken to the hospital where a connection with a nurse is the only way to calm him down. He's originally called Mr Nobody but the nurse renames him Matthew. A neuropsychiatrist, Dr Emma Lewis, is asked to consult on the case - running tests and evaluating him to see if he is lying or is a rare fugue case who has completely lost his past memories. However, that requires Dr Lewis to go back to her hometown where she experienced her own trauma. When she meets her patient, he seems to know things about her past that no one else should know. How is this possible?

A good story with lots of interesting facts about memory and brain function too.

Wow. What an amazing story. It engrossed me from the very beginning until the end. It's unputdownable. The twists and turns in the story will have you forgetting everythingelse you have to do. Absolutely pick up this winner of a book. Buckle in for the ride of your life. Happy reading!

Mr Nobody captured my undivided attention from the very beginning.

A man is discovered on a deserted beach near a small English town with no identification and unable to speak. Medical experts are bewildered by his condition and the press begin to call him Mr Nobody. A young neuropsychiatrist, Emma Stone, is retained to assess the patient’s condition and now she must return to the town she left fourteen years ago. As she confronts a past she has tried so hard to erase, Emma begins realize that her patient knows her secret.

Mr Nobody is Catherine Steadman’s second novel and it is a sharp psychological thriller. It is utterly engrossing and well-written, with interesting characters, a unique plot, and an unexpected ending. While, in the end, it might be a bit implausible, it is still a very good read and I highly recommend it!

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing a copy of this book for review.

Review of Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman

“People have to change themselves” is the last line of this taut thriller.
I liked this book because of the twists and turns but also the psychological aspects of the drama and the issue of identity. Who and/or what determines our identity? What happens when the person we know ourselves to be is taken away from us? These are questions Steadman plays on in this novel. This book reminded me of the Jack Reacher books but in a more mind-game versus physical-game way.
This novel is the story of two people whose identities are not clear to themselves or to the readers until the very end. The story begins as an unidentified man is found on a beach in Norfolk, England. He is alive but doesn’t remember anything about who he is or why he is there. Next, we meet Emma, a psychiatrist who gets a call from a respected colleague to see if she can figure out who this man is. From that point on, we get snippets of Emma’s past parceled out at the same time we are learning about Mr. Nobody, who becomes known as Matthew, and it seems there might be a connection between the two, or is there? There are other characters that go in and out of the story, but the focus really is on the Emma and Matthew and their struggles to come to grips with their past lives and what happens when you can’t put the pieces together versus what happens when you can.
Thank you to Net Galley and Random House/Ballantine for the ARC.

Unfortunately, it's hard to follow, Something in the Water.I think if I hadn't read that I would have liked this more. A man is found washed up with no memory of who he is or how he got there. A Psychiatrist is brought in to assess the situation. She has a past she is hiding and the weird thing is he knows what it is. The ending is a little convoluted.I received an advance copy with no promise for a good review. I did like it.

This was a thriller that provided less thrill than I would have liked. I didn’t find the mystery to be that compelling for some reason. Perhaps the medical terminology slowed it down a bit? While I can suspend belief for the sake of a better story, the more unlikely elements of the novel did little to better the story. I formed no real attachment to these characters. I liked Steadman’s predecessor novel, “Something in the Water” a bit more. Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy for review. I’d rate this as 2/5 stars ⭐️.

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A name that hasn't been spoken in fourteen years, an unresponsive turned unconscious man found on the beach, and an unknown connection between two people who seem world's apart.⁣
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Dr. Emma Lewis, a trained neuropsychiatrist, lands a career-making case when she is asked to be the lead doctor on the case of who the media is calling Mr. Nobody. But the case that seems to be earned by countless hours of research, study, and networking is quickly discovered to not be quite so fortuitous. ⁣
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Sometimes we leave things in the past in hopes of a better future, but those things can hold us back in ways unimagined. Mr. Nobody is a tale of psychological healing but whose tale is it? As our mystery man begins to remember, Emma is only able or treat him with what he chooses to divulge and on the timeline he chooses to reveal those memories. ⁣
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In Catherine Steadman's second novel she takes us on another twisty adventure with an air of medical mystery. Unlike her debut Something in the Water, I feel like we were left with a more fulfilling ending with less unanswered questions. Steadman's stories are only going to get better, I just know it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Stars ⁣
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Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman releases tomorrow January 7th!! ⁣
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A big thanks to Random House Publishing Group/Ballentine Books for the honor or sharing this ARC with me in exchange for an honest review! ⁣
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I enjoyed this book and it was a quick, fast-paced read. The foreshadowing and turns the story took for the majority of the book held my interest. However, I felt like the payoff/resolution of the various storylines were kind of a let down. For example, the set up of what happened in Dr. Lewis's past was paced very well and had me guessing, but then once we finally find out what happened, I felt like it didn't really fit in with the story anymore. I really struggled whether to give it 3 or 4 stars. It was definitely closer to a 3.5 for me. Thank you to NetGalley and Ballantine Books for granting early access to this book. This review is being posted to Goodreads and @thatreadingrealtor on Instagram and Facebook today.

I really wanted to love this book, as I loved Something in the Water. I liked it a lot! Dr. Emma Lewis takes on a patient, Mr. Nobody, a man with no memory. Who is he and does he really have no memory. Why is Emma hiding under a new identity? Told from both Emma's and Mr. Nobody's perspectivekeeps it interesting. My only problem was it took a while to get into. I actually started and finished 2 other books during this one. It does turn out to be worth it though! Give it a chance!

MR. NOBODY, a Psychological Thriller and the first book that I have read by Catherine Steadman, immediately pulled me in and kept me entranced until the big reveal towards the end, which admittedly had me saying, ‘Oh Shit!’, followed by a conclusion that unfortunately left me with a few more questions than answers in regards to clarification of well-placed hints sprinkled along the way.

The tension and build-up throughout MR. NOBODY leading up to the conclusion were, in this reader's opinion, perfect to the point that didn't want to put the book done.

Though MR. NOBODY didn't tick off all the boxes for me, I look forward to reading Steadman’s Mystery Thriller, SOMETHING IN THE WATER (2018) next.

Thank you, NetGalley and Ballantine Books, for loaning me an advance eBook of MR. NOBODY in exchange for an honest review.

Having read and liked Something in the Water, I was excited to read this one and certainly the premise was fascinating: a man awakens on a beach with no memory of who he is or how he got there; he has one word written on his hand. Enter neurologist Emma who is called to diagnose and help him as she's worked with fugue states and retrograde amnesia before. But she is running from her past as one horrific night caused her family to flee and change their names. So Emma meets Mr. Nobody, "Matthew" and feels a connection to him even though there is no recognition. What transpires is a series of events that are mind-boggling and interesting at the same time. I enjoyed this all the way through but I wanted more closure as the ending was not what I'd hoped for.