Guest post by Milly Johnson
Milly Johnson comes from Yorkshire in the North of England. She is a Sunday Times bestseller and has sold millions of copies of her books across the world. Her novels, which combine romance with realistic storytelling about “ordinary” women’s extraordinary lives, champion the strength of women and celebrate love, friendship, and the joy of second chances: all of which she writes about with humor, sensitivity, and wisdom. Connect with her online at www.milly-johnson.com; Instagram: @themillyjohnson; Facebook: @MillyJohnsonAuthor; X: @millyjohnson
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Rachel suffers from blackouts and memory loss due to her problem with alcohol and her fragmented memory is the prism through which we see the story unfold. On her journeys to work, Rachel becomes fascinated by a beautiful young couple she sees through the train window, until one day she spots something disturbing. Then she finds out the woman has gone missing. She involves herself in trying to get to the bottom of what has happened, getting sucked in deeper and deeper, though relying on a tangled brain to try and piece together the elements of the case. It was a very brave book as Rachel, as a character, is someone very difficult to warm to for a reader. But masterfully plotted.
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Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
Maud is an old lady suffering with the onslaught of dementia, but one thing is crystal clear in her brain and that is her friend Elizabeth is missing. And, as is so often the situation with sufferers of this condition, the past is still very much alive and kicking in their heads and in this story, there is a seventy-year-old mystery which has been forgotten by everyone – except Elizabeth. Will the solving of one case bring the final answers that will solve the other?
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Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
Christine is suffering from a type of amnesia that makes it difficult to make new memories even though her long-term memory is intact. And so every day she resets and awakens to a fresh day of not knowing who she is. She needs to find the truth of herself out and attempts to do so through the journal she has been keeping. Little by little the reader comes to realise what is happening in Christine’s situation and who are the people it is safe for her to trust. Nothing is as it seems. I was gripped.
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Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella
Lexi wakes up after having a bad car crash and she has lost the last three years of her memory. She presumes she still has a rotten job with a less than perfect boyfriend and can’t believe this ‘new life’ she finds herself in features her as a high-flyer, rich, preened, married to a handsome man she doesn’t recognise, and she has a handbag to die for. It’s as if her dream life has just landed in her lap. But is this dream life as shiny as it first appears? As always with a Sophie book, there is great fun to be had in the pages.
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What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Alice is happily married and pregnant. At least she thought she was, but then she comes out of a faint on the floor and in hospital discovers that ten years she can’t remember have passed and, in fact, she has three children and is getting a divorce. Alice must reconstruct those missing years and discover why she and her sister have fallen out and how she became a totally different person to the one she last remembered. It’s a wonderful story, clever and very entertaining.
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The Accidental Rewrite by Milly Johnson
Polly Potter is existing rather than living. She hasn’t had the happiest of lives and she is working in a male-dominated environment where all the best ideas are stolen. The only place that Polly feels in control is in the secret creative writing class she goes to every week, where she is writing a book about a kick-ass version of herself, whom she names Sabrina Anderson. When she leaves her cheating partner, faster than she intended to, she runs away to a place no one will find her but she is mugged and loses not only all her possessions but her memory too. The only thing she can remember is that her name is . . . Sabrina Anderson. When ‘Sabrina’ is taken in by a kind lady, determined to help her, she doesn’t expect to find happiness – and love. So, what happens when the truth finally dawns, and she has to return to a reality which isn’t anything like as wonderful as the new life she is living.
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