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?
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“Absorbing…Ballantyne weaves a fine tale of family drama, dark secrets, and the past’s effect on the present. The threads seamlessly come together in a heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, finale.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A moving and sensitive mystery about childhood trauma and its resolution.”
— Booklist“A sweet novel of love, redemption, and loss that chronicles one family’s struggle with a difficult past.”
— Kirkus Reviews“Ballantyne’s effortless prose took me across the Atlantic and didn’t let me return until its surprising and satisfying conclusion.”
— Bryan Reardon, author of Finding JakeBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Lisa Ballantyne was born in Scotland and studied English literature at the University of St. Andrews. She lived and worked in China, where she started writing seriously. Before being published, her work was short-listed for the Dundee International Book Prize. Her debut novel, The Guilty One, was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was short-listed for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and was chosen for the Autumn 2012 Richard and Judy Book Club.
John Lee is the winner of numerous Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. He has twice won acclaim as AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics. He also narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is an accomplished stage actor and has written and coproduced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963–64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.