The Day She Died
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
After a traumatic head injury, Eve questions every memory and motive in this mind-bending psychological thriller.
Eve Gold’s birthdays are killers, and her twenty-seventh proves to be no different. But for the up-and-coming Vancouver artist, facing death isn’t the real shock — it’s what comes after.
Recovering from a near-fatal accident, Eve is determined to return to the life she’s always wanted: a successful artistic career, marriage to the man who once broke her heart, and another chance at motherhood. But brain damage leaves her forgetful, confused, and tortured by repressed memories of a deeply troubled childhood, where her innocence was stolen one lie — and one suspicious death — at a time.
As the dark, twisted pages unfold, Eve must choose between clinging to the lies that helped her survive her childhood and unearthing the secrets she buried long ago.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the first chapter of this dreamy tale of sin and guilt from Canadian author Freedman (The Faithful), a car fatally strikes Vancouver artist Eve Gold on her 27th birthday. Flashbacks, many of them to birthdays, fill in Eve's life story. Eve has a love-hate relationship with her mother, Donna, who puts her as a young teen into a psychiatric hospital, where she drifts in and out of consciousness. After Eve's release, her best friend, Sara Adler, dies on Sara's 17th birthday, but it's unclear whether Sara's death was an accident or Eve had a part in it. Sara's brother, Leigh, to whom Eve is drawn, may also have had something to do with the death. A short time later, Donna is murdered on Eve's 17th birthday, and her grandmother, who disapproves of her relationship with Leigh, ensures that she pursues an art career. Fully rounded characters compensate in part for the confusing jumping back and forth in time and the lack of clarity about what's really happening and what's imagined. This works better as a character study than as a mystery.
