Literary Trauma

Audrey Mendes is a clever lawyer but has never made partner. Her weeks are filled with long hours in the office, visits to her ageing parents, trivia nights at the local and evenings at home with her pet rabbit, Joni. When Audrey tries to buy wine at the pub she is ignored and walks out without paying. One thing leads to another, and soon she starts rebelling in small and creative ways against a world in which she is unseen - until a painful reminder from her childhood pushes her into a reckoning.

In the dark labyrinth of his memories, can Cameron Todd uncover the truth about his girlfriend's fatal plunge from a clifftop? With a brain injury preventing him from remembering anything, even the night Emma died, Cameron is trapped in a sinister game of piecing together his fragmented past. Accusations swirl around him - the police, Emma's grieving family - they all question whether his amnesia is a mere pretence. As he struggles to reconstruct the mosaic of his life, Cameron discovers that his relationship with Emma may not have been as idyllic as he believed.

As an ER nurse, she knew the day might come when her greatest fear happened, and after her husband of 10 years dies in her trauma bay, moving on feels impossible. Struggling to overcome her loss, Elle Conroy navigates the world the only way she thinks she can. Thrown from the top ranks of her career and drawn into the false comfort that diverted narcotics and alcohol bring, she fights to survive in an environment where daily reminders of her tragedy occur.

In 1966, Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honour to her family. As she strives to fit into a world that does not understand her, she realises that survival will mean carving out a destiny of her own. Thirty years later, in London, her daughter Lily can barely remember the mother she lost as a small child. But when she is unexpectedly named in the will of a powerful Chinese stranger, she embarks on a secret pilgrimage to Hong Kong to discover the lost side of her identity and claim the reward.

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In un romanzo tutta la nostra vita: come la vogliamo, come, a volte, non la vogliamo. Luísa era ancora un'adolescente. Tiago era ormai un giovane adulto. Si erano conosciuti nella solitudine di una spiaggia, sulla riva di un fiume. Avevano in comune una storia famigliare traumatica. In un caso, genitori troppo amati. Nell'altro, genitori troppo odiati.Si erano conosciuti un giorno che sembrava contenere una vita intera.