One word: wow! This latest offering from Jewell starts off strong and keeps readers riveted until the very last word.… his book is "unreliable narrator" at its best! She currently lives in Swiss Cottage, London with her husband Jascha and two daughters. Jewell is one of the most popular authors writing in the UK today, and in 2008 was awarded the Melissa Nathan Award For Comedy Romance for her novel 31 Dream Street. Those three chapters were eventually developed into Jewell's debut novel Ralph's Party, which then became the UK's bestselling debut novel in 1999. She worked in fashion retail for several years, namely Warehouse and Thomas Pink.Īfter being made redundant, Jewell accepted a challenge from her friend to write three chapters of a novel in exchange for dinner at her favourite restaurant. Michael's Catholic Grammar School in Finchley, north London, leaving school after one day in the sixth form to do an art foundation course at Barnet College followed by a diploma in fashion illustration at Epsom School of Art & Design. Her books number some 15, including most recently The House We Grew Up In (2013), The Third Wife (2014), The Girls in the Garden (U.S. Lisa Jewell is a British author of popular fiction.
Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it’s not just that he’s playing the role of protective older brother. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty.
Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. 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. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside.
He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house.
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