![]() ![]() A great book with an ending you may not be expecting.' ***** 'This is my favourite novel by this author so far.' ***** 'For fast paced suspense, well developed characters, and a great story, it just doesn't get any better than this!' _ Praise for Lisa Jewell. A fantastic psychological suspense novel.' ***** 'This book had EVERYTHING!!! I enjoyed this very, very much.' ***** 'Lisa Jewell never lets me down ever. But who is he, and how can she trust a man who has lost his memory? _ Readers love I FOUND YOU. Against her better judgement, she invites him into her home. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Alice finds a man on the beach outside her house. ![]() 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. ![]() Or does he? Lily has only been married for three weeks. A proper thriller with wonderful characters' Sabine Durrant _ Two women. I loved I Found You' Clare Mackintosh 'I LOVED I Found You. What if you can't remember yours? 'Fresh and intriguing, with characters so real I ached for them. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall. ![]() Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could ever remember a time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. It had been raining for seven years thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun. ![]() "Do the scientists really know? Will it happen today, will it ?" ![]() ![]() Giuseppe, meanwhile, longs to go back to his native Italy, from which he was taken against his will when an uncle sold him to the cruel padrone whom he now serves as a slave. He worries that if he doesn’t figure out how to make the automaton’s head, he will never pass the guild examination to be a journeyman clockmaker. ![]() Still, Frederick hasn’t learned to accept and trust his master’s love, and so he labors in secret to build a clockwork man. ![]() Treeless’s workhouse, thanks to his mechanical talents and the kindness of a clockmaker, who made him his apprentice. All of these destinies are caught up together, intertwined, and depend on the qualities of courage, resourcefulness, and friendship in each of them, qualities that bring them together in spite of their differences. Together and separately, the face a series of challenges that may determine their future happiness, their family’s welfare, their personal survival, and/or the fate of a nature sanctuary adjacent to the city. ![]() city, sometime in the 1800s, three children who have never previously met each other have a strange adventure together. ![]() |