Book Review - Now You See Her

Now You See Her by Joy Fielding

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Marcy's life is a bit of a wreck. Her mother killed herself. Her daughter presumably died in a canoeing accident, though her body was never found. Her husband left her for a golf pro at the club, just before their anniversary. To try to perk herself back up, she decides to take their anniversary trip to Ireland on her own - why waste a fun vacation after all? And it's sitting in a pub, chatting with an American tourist that she sees her daughter - outside in the rain, through the ad-pasted front window of the pub.

This revelation turns Marcy's life upside-down. She would do anything, of course, to find her daughter whom she loves and desperately misses. She begins searching the streets for her daughter, showing around pictures, asking questions, and eventually becoming friends with the handsome young bartender from the pub where she'd spotted Devon - her daughter - as well as the American tourist she'd been chatting with at the time. While both men seem determined to help her on her quest, one also ransacks her room, gets her in trouble with the local police, and is undermining her at every turn. But which?

This is a fun, sometimes very sad, romp through Cork, Ireland - a place I've always wanted to visit. The main character is engaging and sympathetic, though the story has some holes and strange twists that seem overly-dramatized. Still, it's an engaging read.



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