When a young Norwegian woman wakes from an accident robbed of her most recent memories, she trusts her parents’ advice that she must stay confined to her attic bedroom while she recuperates. But when Eva decides the time has come to break free of their caring incarceration, she discovers a world of secrets and lies, and a journey to discover her true identity begins.
Could she really be the missing baby Lorna of British newspaper headlines? Are the people she calls Mum and Dad actually her abductors? And why did they choose to conceal the arrival of her new baby brother, born while Eva was locked away?
While the present day story unfolds, clear slices of Eva’s idyllic childhood are revealed as she tries to piece together the mysteries of her past – and those of her increasingly untrustworthy parents.
My thoughts: as this story slowly unfolds and Eva starts to work out what’s happened to her and piece her past together, it gets more gripping and more shocking with each revelation.
Her parents have locked her in the attic, supposedly for her own good, after an accident and a period in hospital she can’t remember. They don’t seen inclined to help her remember and they won’t allow her any visitors (like her best friends) apart from the cops.
But she’s determined to get answers, especially after she hears a baby crying, and her doctor mother keeps giving her pills that knock her out, which seems suspicious too.
The fragments of her memories are confusing and without anyone to help her put them together, she’s really scared. Then a stranger approaches her with some answers and she finds herself in the middle of a huge cold case. Is she missing baby Lorna, abducted from the hospital just before her mother’s death? Or is it a bit more complicated than that?
Clever, intense and woven with a complicated plot and a strong protagonist in Eva, who despite all the strange things happening to her is always determined to get to the truth about herself.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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