Jewell is a huge fan of writing stories from multiple perspectives and points-of-view. All of these characters have some kind of connection to one another and the reader slowly unravels that connection as the story progresses. The reader learns that Gray’s sister Kirsty ends up dating a young man who is not who he seems. Gray is a teenager who is on a family trip with his parents and sister. Lastly, the reader learns about Gray who is telling his story in 1993. When Lily’s husband doesn’t return home from work one evening, she heads out on a frantic search to find him.
She is a brash Ukrainian woman who has recently moved to the United Kingdom to live with her husband she has just married. Lily is the next character that the reader gets to learn about. What was supposed to be a one night of kindness turns into Alice helping Frank recall what has happened to him. Alice originally goes down to give Frank a jacket and to offer him a warm place to stay overnight. The reader will then learn about Frank who ends up on the beach outside of Alice’s house. She has a big heart which has led her to some questionable decisions in her life, but Alice means well and is such a loving and caring person, even if she is a little scatterbrained. Alice is a single mother with three kids and a herd of dogs. Alice is the first person that the reader will learn about. It’s apparent that these people are somehow connected and Jewell does a wonderful job at not giving away anything as she navigates between these character’s narratives.Įach of the four narrators in I Found You are each so unique and Jewell does a wonderful job balancing the overall plot between the four of them while also finding a way to connect them all. The story is told from four perspectives: Alice, the mystery man that Alice’s daughter names Frank, and Lily (which are told in the present), and Gray, who is telling his story from 1993. The novel follows three narratives throughout the story as the reader tries to figure out who this mysterious man is and why he ended up on a beach not remembering anything about himself, where he came from, or why he is alone on a beach in the pouring rain. I Found You is Lisa Jewell’s fourteenth novel, which published in 2016, and it is both extremely mystifying and very well done.
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