I liked the 1941 timeline better than the Nancy/Martin one, which I somehow couldn't engage with at all - the story and characters never really came alive for me. Her writing is beautiful as she manages to create great drama but also emotional attachment to the characters in this book. Jane Corry seems to make each chapter end on a thrilling moment which made me want to read on to find out what happens next.

I would love to share more about things that happened in the story but the synopsis doesn't give much away, so neither am I. Fast forward to Nancy’s stepbrother Martin being convicted for the murder of Nancy’s mother and her stepfather, with Nancy herself facing a “silent sentence“. Coming To Find You is set in a beautiful coastal regency house set in seaside village in Devon (hence the beautiful cover).It felt like the author couldn’t decide how to connect the WWII aspect to the murder aspect, so they created multiple weak connections through tropes (the importance of best friends, mental illness, domestic violence) but every single theme or message falls short. I do believe the level of trauma before the big reveal implied a larger moment and it felt again like the narrator's image was being protected rather than exploring the trauma that links the assault and the murder.

Nancy hopes to find respite here from the constant media attention that has plagued her since her stepbrother murdered her mother and stepfather.As she has with her previous books, she has made them part of the story and is the crux of the beginnings of some of the rot that is the story. It has a WW2 time line mixed into the modern day time line, I think knowing this before hand would of made me hesitant to read as I don’t love wartime historical fiction but actually that time line was the better one of the two!

It has well developed characters and the author has cleverly written this and at first I thought that the two stories wouldn’t go together but it blended perfectly. Jane worked as an RLF Fellow at Exeter University and is a former creative writing tutor at Oxford University.

Coming To Find You explores the effects of serious crime on the perpetrator's family, and does it very well. Eighty years later, Nancy Greenfield, takes refuge in the same house on Cliff Road when her stepbrother is sent to prison.

At first I was confused, then a bit annoyed because I wasn't necessarily in the mood for historical fiction, but in the end, the WWII storyline ended up being more fully fleshed out than the present day one.As each chapter reveals things regarding Nancy, the alternating chapters tell the story of Elizabeth and her guests in Tall Chimney’s, what happened during the war. The story revolves around Nancy, who after a tragedy in her family, decides to seek refuge in her grandmother's house, Tall Chimneys. In a dual timeline back in 1941, we follow a story involving Nancy's grandmother, her friend, and the house on the south coast where Nancy is now seeking refuge. I will note that historical fiction is not usually my cup of tea, and I would normally pass on a book identifying itself as historical.