The Strange Case of Jane O.
From the international bestselling author of THE AGE OF MIRACLES - What if you could remember everything, except the day you disappeared?
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'Moving and unexpected. It lingers in the mind' Guardian
'An extraordinary book' Daily Mail
'Heart-expanding . . . inquisitive, brilliantly-crafted' Florence Knapp, The Names
The extraordinary and unforgettable new novel from the international bestselling author of THE AGE OF MIRACLES
WHAT IF YOU COULD REMEMBER EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THE DAY YOU DISAPPEARED?
A young woman, Jane O., arrives in a psychiatrist's office. She's been suffering a series of worrying episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations and an inexplicable sense of dread. But as the psychiatrist struggles to solve the mystery of what is happening in Jane's mind, she suddenly goes missing. When she is found a day later, unconscious in a park, she has no memory of what has happened to her.
Are Jane's strange experiences related to the overwhelm of single motherhood, or long-buried trauma from her past? Why is she having visions of a young man who died twenty years ago, who warns her of disaster ahead? Jane's symptoms will lead her psychiatrist to question everything he once thought he knew . . .
Profound and beautifully written, THE STRANGE CASE OF JANE O. is a speculative mystery about memory, identity and fate, a mesmerising story about the bonds of love between a mother and child, a man and a woman, and the haunting, unexplained mysteries of the human mind.
'Brilliant and unforgettable' Karen Russell
'A tantalising and satisfying mystery' Claire Fuller
'Mind-bending and soul-altering' Jessamine Chan
'Mesmerising' Publisher's Weekly
'An exhilarating and riveting must-read' Kirkus Starred Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The mesmerizing latest from Walker (The Age of Miracles) is a fantastical tale of a mother's mysterious visions and memory lapses. Psychiatrist Henry Byrd is called to a Brooklyn emergency room after Jane O.—a single mother who was found unconscious in Prospect Park, with no memory of what happened during the previous 25 hours—requests him by name. As Jane was Byrd's patient for just one session, he's surprised to be summoned. But when she tells him about a vivid hallucination of a middle-aged man who she knew as a teen before he died decades earlier, and who gives her an elliptical warning to "get out of the city," the details capture Byrd's attention ("A hallucination of extended duration, not just a brief flash of something unreal, is more alarming in terms of prognosis," Walker writes). Jane is also troubled by her amnesia—she ordinarily has perfect autobiographical memory, or the ability to remember every incident of her life to the smallest detail. Byrd grows increasingly fascinated by Jane, and when she disappears for days after another apparent fugue state, he throws himself into investigating a diagnosis more mystical than anything found in the DSM-5. Jane's story unfolds in sections structured alternately as Byrd's clinical notes and her own journal, which takes the form of letters to her infant son. As Byrd's tone becomes more confessional, the narrative opens up an alluring vision of how personal history and memory intertwine. This one is tough to shake.
