What My Body Remembers

Zusatztext 69682778 Informationen zum Autor Agnete Friis has coauthored four novels in the award-winning New York Times bestselling Nina Borg series: The Boy in the Suitcase ! Invisible Murder ! Death of a Nightingale ! and The Considerate Killer . She lives in Copenhagen. What My Body Remembers is her solo debut. Klappentext Twisty and brimming with the emotional power of beautifully drawn characters! the solo debut by the coauthor of The Boy in the Suitcase is a brooding and atmospheric thriller that sets a young mother on a collision course with her past in order to save her son's future. Ella Nygaard! 27! has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old! the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it-but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours at a time! sometimes days. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward! she discovers her son! Alex! has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Desperate not to lose her son! Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother's abandoned house is in grave disrepair! but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything! she is the best parent for her child. But being back in the small town forces Ella to confront the demons of her childhood-the monsters her memory has tried so hard to obscure. What really happened that night her mother died? Was her grandmother right-was Ella's father unjustly convicted? What other secrets were her parents hiding from each other? If Ella can start to remember! maybe her scars will begin to heal-or maybe the truth will put her in even greater danger. “Can’t you get him to shut up at night?”      Rosa came to stand next to me on the gallery and took out a cigarette. Her hair was platinum blonde, if one were kind enough to ignore the ten-centimeter band of liver-pâté roots on top. Her skin was pink and chronically pocked, a skin condition from half a life of alcohol and too much sun. Her color combination reminded me of Neapolitan ice cream melting in the sun; chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. The cheap stuff they dished up at Bakkegården when it was time for a party.      “He’s got nightmares. He can’t help it,” I said flatly.      We’d had this conversation hundreds of times before, practically word for word, but Rosa had no sympathy for social aberrations of this kind. Her life—as I had come to know it in the two years we’d lived in the apartment next door—was little more than an endless row of repetitions. Morning coffee with the husband at eight, shopping at Netto at ten, rye bread with meat and raw onions at twelve. Then, two hours on the sofa with an indefinite number of Kodimagnyl and Valium swimming in her blood. Cake, coffee, and TV at three. Dinner with the husband at six. Some kind of fried meat, potatoes, and cooked vegetables. Then more TV, more coffee, and a stack of smokes. Washing was done Monday. Lotto Wednesday and Saturday.      “It’s not normal for a child his age,” she went on.      I was inclined to agree, but didn’t say so out loud. Alex’s nightmares were undiluted terror and, according to Doctor Erhardsen, most common amongst preschool kids. Alex was eleven, almost twelve.      “And what do you suggest I do about it?”      Rosa wrinkled her nose and looked away.      “He keeps us up, for Christ’s sake. And Jens has to be fresh for work in the mornings.” Her voice was tobacco-rough, no trace of a smile. “If your son were a dog, we would’ve had the super put him down.”      Dry laughter.      The walls of our concrete apartment complex were thin as eggshells; after eleven, anything going on n...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Agnete Friis, Lindy Falk Van Rooyen
• Con la collaborazione di: Lindy Falk Van Rooyen (Traduzione)
• Editore: Soho Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781616956028
• ISBN: 978-1-61695-602-8
• Pagine: 304
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli