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Watching You

Written by: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times and number-one Sunday Times best-selling author and “brilliant storyteller” (Shelf Awareness, starred review) Lisa Jewell weaves another suspenseful thriller about a shocking murder in a picturesque and well-to-do English town, perfect for fans of Big Little Lies.

Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It’s the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It’s not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back 30 times with a kitchen knife in their own homes.

Someone must have seen something.

Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years of working in Ibiza. She and her husband, Alfie, are eager to find a place of their own in her hometown. But Joey finds herself distracted by the man next door, Tom Fitzwilliam. He’s the principal of the local high school, twice her age, and devastatingly attractive. What starts as an innocent infatuation soon escalates into fixation, and before long, Joey can’t keep her eyes off of Tom.

Or the principal’s son, Freddie, who dreams of working as a spy and has been developing his surveillance skills by keeping meticulous logs of the coming and goings in the area. And, as he approaches his 15th birthday, his attention - and his lens - are turning more and more toward the local women.

Or perhaps single mother Frances Tripp, who has long been convinced she is being stalked. Her teenage daughter, Jenna, is worried these delusions are signs of her mother’s deteriorating mental health, particularly now that her paranoia has found a specific target: Tom Fitzwilliam. Frances is determined to keep an eye on him until she can prove he is behind her persecution.

Twenty years earlier, a schoolgirl writes in her diary, charting her doomed obsession with a handsome young English teacher named Mr. Fitzwilliam.

Nobody knows why this horrific murder was committed, but someone in Melville Heights knows who did it. As the community’s fearful eyes turn on each other, the question remains:

Who else is watching?

©2018 Lisa Jewell. Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 by Penguin Random House UK. (P)2018 Simon & Schuster

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Great read

Narrator was great, story was great, everything ties nicely together! Suspenseful. Many story lines from many characters makes it interesting. Overall, highly recommended!!

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Wow! Couldn’t stop listening to this!

I feel like this genre is sort of hit and miss... but this one is excellent! Very well written story. Narrating is relaxing and enjoyable.

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  • LB
  • 2021-01-16

This is not a book I would recommend to others

Although initially interesting this story dragged on and on, long past its "best before" date. The characters are poorly developed, lacking credibility and depth. The plot feels contrived. By the time I got to the second half of this book, I found myself repeatedly checking how much time there was left to go until the end. I kept listening only because I was curious to find out who the person responsible for the crime would be.

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Forced myself to finish this...

I have listened to other Lisa Jewell novels and was really disappointed by this one. It was incredibly boring and to be honest... I forced myself to finish it. I kept hoping the pace would pick up... but it didn’t. Very boring. Don’t recommend.

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Very disappointing!

I’ve enjoyed her other books but Watching You fell flat. Pure fluff veiled in less than salient detail and muddled characters.

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Excellent Mystery

Really enjoyed the twists and turns of the story - and how the author weaves the threads of clues and details into a complex but totally readable / listenable book. Definitely plan to listen to more Lisa Jewell novels!

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Disappointing

So very slow to get started and overall quite disappointing. I only really enjoyed the last few chapters

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  • AFH
  • 2023-08-07

Kept me guessing to the end!!!

What a thrilling and suspenseful listen. I thought I knew who committed the crime, however, this book had me doubting my thoughts every step of the way.
I loved it and listened to this book for 6 hours one day. It’s hard to put down.
What an intriguing, gripping and complex story line.
I have read most of Lisa Jewell books and she never disappoints. What an imaginative writer and creator of such a wonderful book.
Love listening to Gabrielle Glaister narration of this book. She pulls you into the story.
I highly recommend this book.

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A lot of characters for an audiobook

It might be just me but with so many different characters and story lines, this book is better to be read than listened to. With a book you can at least flip back and forth to remember people. I found it hard to keep everyone straight.

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I was obsessed with this

I listen to it in only a few days, such a gripping story that kept me guessing until the very end!!

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  • amanda fallis
  • 2019-02-06

Soooo good!!

Outstanding—I’m crazy picky about my books and loved “The She Was Gone” so decided to give this one a go and enjoyed it even more. Once again the narrator is on point and the characters are interesting and endearing-
Will absolutely be recommending this to my friends and Lisa Jewel is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors.
Just do it!

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  • Donna
  • 2018-12-27

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plot twists with a couple of new twists of pop psychology. I could not have written this, it has so many threads to weave together and it did surprise my toward the end. And the narrator is very good. Buy it for a goos light non-bloody read to pass,the long cold dark winter nights.

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  • Sheila S
  • 2019-01-17

Not a true page-turner

I really enjoyed Then She Was Gone, so my expectations were set high. While this wasn't a bad book, it wasn't tense or particularly suspenseful. On the plus side, the characters were nuanced and there was an unexpected twist. Rating: 3.5 stars rounded up.

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  • Denise Bolton
  • 2019-01-07

Suspenseful and funny!

Great story. Keeps you guessing! You will fall in love and hate with the well written characters. Lisa jewel writes them so well . Her descriptions are so good that at times you are repulsed by the details she gives! Also had me laughing out loud with her one liners!

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  • Pedro Consumidor
  • 2019-01-21

Great writing and narrating

One of my favorites in a while. The performance was superb. Perfect tempo and dramatic reading of the story. Well written story too.

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  • Kristin Stauch
  • 2019-04-17

Good storyline

This book had several plots that never really seemed to overlap. Although it was well written, I felt more could have been done to delve deeper into the storylines for Tom, I believe it was still left muddied.. and also some of the flashback characters from their perspective. Although the story was very well done and there was a satisfying twist in the end.

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  • Anne
  • 2020-04-26

okay twists and turns, no character development

Ya know, the usual domestic drama with a big twist. I cared for no one in the book, I think so many books are going for the "big reveal" or plot twist... but where is the juice? Where are the characters? It kept me vaguely entertained.

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  • danielle franklin
  • 2019-03-05

Good, but not great.

A good whodunnit, but not especially memorable. I wasn’t desperate to keep going like I was with Jewell’s other books. She spends an inordinate amount of time convincing you that characters are inherently good or bad people, only to flip them in the last chapters to tie it all up in a nice little bow.

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  • LJT
  • 2019-01-23

Enjoyable

I wasn’t sure whether to give this book 3 or four stars. But I liked it more and more as I read, or listened, that I upped it to four. There are a lot of different characters and stories but they all seem to connect somehow and made it very interesting. It was a slow reveal without major twists or turns but there were some and I thought it was very well done. Overall an interesting and satisfying read.

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  • Ms Gayle M. G.
  • 2018-12-29

Jewell Packs Meaningful Message in this Woven Gem

Jewell weaves a multivalent tale together that carries urgent themes. Themes of community, family, teens finding themselves, adults coming of age, gender roles & issues, and prevalent issues found in schools today such as teasing and bullying. Most importantly the lasting adverse effects of bullying, and when caught its consequences. Great suspenseful read!

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