These two stories set in present-day Britain are interwoven with a third story set in 1993 of a family's annual vacation to the beach, which takes a troubling and ominous turn after the 15-year-old daughter, Kirsty, begins dating a local 19-year-old guy, Mark. After the local police inform Lily his passport is fake, she begins to search for him to determine whom she married and why he suddenly abandoned her. Near London, Lily, a young wife from the Ukraine who has been living in England with her new husband, panics when he fails to return home. Her children give him the name Frank, and Alice works to help him regain his memory and learn how he ended up in the north of England. Single mother Alice offers a stranger sitting on the beach in the rain a windbreaker, and, upon learning he has no recollection of who he is or how he got there, she invites him to stay in her guesthouse. Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.Three lonely people meet when their lives are in upheaval and learn they are also connected by a haunting 20-year-old mystery. Is a delicious collision course of a novel, filled with the believable characters, stunning writing, and "surprising revelations all the way up to the ending" ( Who is the man on the beach? Where is Lily's missing husband? And what ever happened to the man who made such a lasting and disturbing impression on Gray? Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it's not just because he's a protective older brother. The annual trip to Ridinghouse Bay is uneventful, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty Ross are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents.
Soon, she receives even worse news: according to the police, the man she married never even existed. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, newlywed Lily Monrose grows anxious when her husband fails to return home from work one night. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. In the windswept British seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on a beach outside her house. She ratchets up the tension masterfully, and her writing is lively.". "Jewell's novel explores the space between going missing and being lost.how the plots intersect and finally collide is one of the great thrills of reading Jewell's book. "Readers of Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and Ruth Ware will love.".
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