Stolen Memories
Eva Johnson, the main character in Mary Miley’s gripping new 1920s-set book Stolen Memories, begins the novel’s events at rock-bottom: she wakes up in a Paris hospital, in bandages, having no memory of the attack which took place on the banks of the Seine and incapacitated her.
Neither does she remember her life before the attack, nor her husband, who quickly comes to collect her from the hospital and install her in a sinister chalet in the French province of Champagne, where she soon encounters new mysteries to compound the ones that already plague her.
Miley’s ability to convey the beautiful yet menacing atmosphere of Champagne is remarkable, and her sense of pacing keeps Stolen Memories gripping throughout, especially in the climactic chapters when a series of shocking revelations upends the whole story.
Very satisfying.
