![]() ![]() Feeney packs the final 60-odd pages with a series of head-spinning and, in some cases, head-scratching plot twists the overall effect is to leave readers wondering exactly what happened-and how much of Amber’s account they can believe. But as days pass and memories flood back-both from the turbulent previous weeks, when she was fighting to keep her job and near-frantic about Paul being unfaithful, and from the particularly fraught year when she was 11-it becomes clear that this is an infinitely more sinister story. Sometimes I lie. Not to mention the menacing man who sneaks into her hospital room. ![]() Amber Reynolds, a radio show presenter, is lying in a London-area hospital in a coma the day after Christmas, body unresponsive but mind alert, struggling to piece together what happened to her-and whether it has anything to do with Paul, her husband (whom the police suspect), or Claire, the younger sister she fears Paul’s fallen for. ![]() Almost nothing is as it initially appears in BBC News veteran Feeney’s bold if overambitious debut, a serpentine tale of betrayal, madness, and murder. ![]()
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