Description
You are outside your front door. There are strangers in your house. Then you realise... You can't remember your name.
She arrived at the train station after a difficult week at work. Her bag had been stolen, and with it, her identity. Her whole life was in there – passport, wallet, house key. When she tried to report the theft, she couldn't remember her own name. All she knew was her own address.
Now she's outside Tony and Laura's front door. She says she lives in their home. They say they have never met her before.
One of them is lying.
Review
The headline blurb for this book really drew me in - You are outside your front door. There are strangers in your house. Then you realise... You can't remember your name.
So it begins - who are the people in her house? Or is she actually in their house? I was intrigued to say the least.
Quite quickly I thought that she must have lived in the house in the past, otherwise why would she know the layout of the rooms. It seemed like a case of amnesia for sure and the couple who live in the house kindly let her stay the night as she has no belongings, only the train ticket that got her to the village. But as she falls asleep she hears the guy whisper at her bedroom door "welcome home" as he thinks she is asleep for the night. Spooky - so now does that mean he does know her.........
The book goes from a whodunnit which I began to think was getting cheesy to a really chilling thriller with a fantastic climax and I had to quickly rethink my opinion of the plot. All through the book the character who has become known as Jemma repeats "forget my name" to herself and it was only when I finished the book I realised how meaningful this was on several different levels.
This would have been a five star book for me but I have taken one off for slightly too many red herrings than I think were necessary, which just made it a little unbelievable (yes I know it's fiction) and the line "you look like a Jemma to me with a "J" - that was the beginning of me thinking it was cheesy.
Four out of five stars and my thanks to Netgalley for a ARC to review.
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