Everything She Forgot, Lisa Ballantyne
Everything She Forgot, Lisa Ballantyne
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Everything She Forgot
A Novel

Author: Lisa Ballantyne

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2015


Synopsis

Some things aren't meant to be remembered . . .They're calling it the worst pileup in London history. Margaret Holloway is driving home, but her mind is elsewhere—on a troubled student, her daughter's acting class, the next day's meeting—when she's rear-ended and trapped in the wreckage. Just as she begins to panic, a disfigured stranger pulls her from the car seconds before it's engulfed in flames. Then he simply disappears.Though she escapes with minor injuries, Margaret feels that something's wrong. She's having trouble concentrating. Her emotions are running wild. More than that, flashbacks to the crash are also dredging up lost associations from her childhood, fragments of events that had been wiped from her memory. Whatever happened, she didn't merely forget—she chose to forget. And somehow, Margaret knows deep down that it has something to do with the man who saved her life.As Margaret uncovers a mystery with chilling implications for her family and her very identity, Everything She Forgot winds through a riveting dual narrative and asks the question: How far would you go to hide the truth—from yourself?

About Lisa Ballantyne

Lisa Ballantyne is the author of the Edgar Award-nominated The Guilty One. She lived and worked in China for many years and started writing seriously while she was there. Ballantyne now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will

Margaret Holloway is 35, a deputy head teacher at a nearby academy, a wife, a mother, and a mentor to a young student who is struggling to pull himself up from his family’s low beginnings. She has a full life but her memory has a large gap. She can’t seem to remember much from the age of 7 and earli......more

I have a lot to say about this book because for the first half I did not like it that much and by the time I got to the ending I liked it a lot. It's a story about a woman who is in a car collision and trapped in her car and a man comes along, breaks the window and pulls her out of the car, after wh......more

Goodreads review by Gary

This is a very good mystery novel about family and forgiveness, courage and commitment. The main character Margaret Holloway is involved in a car crash during her adult life that sets off the start of remembering memories lost from her childhood. Her childhood has massive holes of forgotten memories......more

Redemption Road psychological novel told at a steady pace, one where the past meets the present in a book that provides much food for thought as well as a cracking good story. Margaret Holloway holds a managerial position in a secondary school, driven and committed when she leaves the school one Dece......more