When a pretty young woman is found washed up on a beach with a head injury everybody wonders who she is, including the woman herself.
With no recollection of who she is, or how she got on the beach the Police are left to check the missing persons reports.
A boyfriend quickly comes forward and identifies the woman as Mia James.
This doesn’t help Mia, she doesn’t even recognise her own face in the mirror.
Written in the first person this book follows Mia from the moment she is found through the frustrations of her trying to find out who she is, and how she ended up on the beach.
It will be no surprise that not everybody is the person they portray themselves to be. Actually they are who they say they are, it’s their personality, and motive for being close to Mia that they make up. So who can she trust and who should she be afraid of.
Mia it turns out is a young, pretty, independent woman with a bit of money to her name.
Everybody around her seems to have motive for either being nice to her, or at least giving the pretence of being nice to her, after all, she can’t remember anything. That is until the dreams start, or are they actually memories resurfacing.
It wasn’t an accident that led to her being found half dead on the beach.
This story is written really cleverly. Boland deliberately leads the reader along different paths. Likeable characters and horrible characters come and go.
Trust issues are a constant in Mia’s new life, but is this because of her past, or has she always been a bad judge of character.
Reading the book had me wondering what I would make of my life if I woke up one morning with no memory. It’s not just a case of working out who you are, can you trust the people around you.
What would it be like to make a completely new start.
There is a crime at the centre of this story, but what is it and who committed it.
A clever story.
Pages: 306
Publisher: Bookouture
Publishing date: 20 March 2019
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