Lisa Jewell, Author . Dutton $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-94653-3
Tall and gangly Ana Wills has never felt comfortable in her own skin and has spent years dreaming of her beautiful older half-sister Bee's glamorous life. Bee, who had a falling out with their overbearing and neurotic mother, Gay, left over a...
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Lisa Jewell, Author . Harper $14.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-06-113746-4
Vince Mellon and Joy Downer meet as late-blooming teenagers on a beach vacation, and lose their virginity to one another, then reunite as adults kept apart by bad timing and miscommunication in the winning fourth novel by British bestseller Jewell (A
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Lisa Jewell, Author . Harper $14.95 (460p) ISBN 978-0-06-113747-1
Jewell’s boisterous sixth novel is a compulsively readable jaunt through the lives of a handful of suburban London misfits. Leah, a shopgirl whose live-in boyfriend flees when she mentions marriage, lives across the street from Toby, a...
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Lisa Jewell, Author Plume Books $13 (336p) ISBN 978-0-452-28212-4
Like a fizzy cocktail, Jewell's follow-up to her bestselling Ralph's Party is quickly consumed and sometimes dizzying. Set in posh London, the plot adheres to the When Harry Met Sally formula of romantic comedy--two characters are unaware of their...
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Lisa Jewell, Author Plume Books $12.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-452-28163-9
Comparisons to Bridget Jones's Diary are sure to greet British author Jewell's American debut, but her tale of love among neighbors bears more resemblance to TV's Melrose Place. Intertwining the lives of six youngish, soul-searching and fun-loving...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $15 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0910-3
Jewell carves out a dreary universe of resentment, loneliness, and barely hidden rage for the couple she first introduced in Ralph's Party. After 11 years and two kids together (but no marriage), public relations agent Jem and artist Ralph discover...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $15 trade paper (403p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0911-0
In U.K. bestseller Jewell’s ninth novel, readers meet Daniel, a man with a secret: as a sperm donor, he fathered four children. Now, dying from cancer at 53, he wants to find them and enlists his friend Maggie to help. The wealthy Lydia is lonely...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $16 trade paper (435p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0294-0
In Jewell's (After the Party) novel, Betty Dean spent her childhood on the Channel Island of Guernsey dreaming of bigger and better things in London, but she stayed there well into her 20s to care for her ailing grandmother, Arlette. When Arlette...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $24 (400p) ISBN 978-1-476-70299-5
Jewell’s most recent novel (after Before I Met You) is a melodrama starring the Bird clan: happy-go-lucky mother Lorelai, patient father Colin, headstrong eldest child Meg, meek Beth, and dissimilar twins Rory and Rhys. “They lived in a honey-colored
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9221-7
Clare and her two daughters, 12-year-old Pip and 13-year-old Grace, move into a “cute little flat” near a Narnia-like park in London. When the girls make friends with the neighbors and the park clique, it looks like they are on the right path. But...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5011-5464-5
More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir from bestseller Jewell (I Found You). The disappearance of beautiful, brainy 15-year-old Ellie Mack in May 2005 from her north London neighborhood takes a terrible toll...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9007-0
In the prologue of this crafty conundrum from bestseller Jewell (Then She Was Gone), a dead body lies on the kitchen floor of the Fitzwilliam family’s Victorian house in a posh neighborhood of Bristol, England. The author smoothly juggles multiple...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9010-0
Twenty-five years before the present-day action of this un-put-downable psychological thriller from bestseller Jewell (Watching You), the bodies of Henry and Martina Lamb and an unknown man were found in the Lambs’ mansion in London’s exclusive...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3733-5
Facile plotting, underdeveloped characters, and unconvincing stakes mar this disappointing domestic thriller from bestseller Jewell (The Family Upstairs). Owen Pick, a 33-year-old computer science teacher, gets suspended from his London college when
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-9821-3736-6
In this excellent thriller from bestseller Jewell (The Family Upstairs), Tallulah and Zach, both 19, disappear after a date night that starts at a pub and takes the unmarried couple to a country estate in Surrey, England. Left behind is their infant
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7889-5
Bestseller Jewell’s lively sequel to 2019’s The Family Upstairs juggles three different story lines that eventually overlap. In 2019, Det. Insp. Samuel Owusu investigates skeletal remains in a black trash bag that have washed up on the bank of the...
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Lisa Jewell. Atria, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-982179-00-7
In this edgy thriller from bestseller Jewell (The Family Remains), meek housewife Josie Fair and true crime podcaster Alix Summers meet by chance in a pub where both are celebrating their 45th birthdays. Immediately obsessed with her more successful
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