Watching You: A Novel by Lisa Jewell. Atria Books, 2019. Adult Fiction.In the lovely little Melville Heights neighborhood of Bristol, England, Joey(Joesephine)Mullen is married to Alfie Butter who is working as a house painter. They are reduced living with Jack, her doctor brother, and his pregnant wife, Rebecca. Life is not as great as she hoped it might be, with Joey working at the Whackadoo child care center and pining for romance and self worth. Handsome headmaster Tom Fitzwilliam and his wife, Nicola, live so near that they can see into each other's windows sometimes. The Fitzwilliams have a teenage son who uses his own window to spy on the neighborhood. Jenna Tripp is a student and is valiantly trying to keep everyone from knowing how her own mother is slipping into mental illness. Then, someone is killed. The narrative chapters are alternated with transcripts from the police interviews. The past of these characters become clearer and their current interweavings are explored until the rather sad, but resolved, ending. Definitely a thriller and just ripe for a movie version, the novel may make readers wonder just who could be watching them!
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