This author crafts haunting, dreamlike narratives that often draw from a life lived across diverse cultural landscapes. Her literary style is characterized by its fluidity and an ability to immerse readers in profound, atmospheric worlds. She creates stories that grapple with the human condition and the search for identity. Her work is celebrated for its distinctive vision and meticulous execution.
At forty-five, Marsh finds herself at a crossroads with a stagnant career, a failed marriage, and a strained relationship with her daughter. Selected for the show All This and More, she has the chance to revise her past using quantum technology, aiming to reclaim her dreams of romance and adventure. As she achieves success and rekindles old relationships, doubts arise about the show's promises and the authenticity of her newfound life. Marsh must confront whether her dreams are truly attainable and if the cost of change is worth it.
A spellbinding story with a brilliant concept, set in a world where it's
possible to create new places by illustrating them on maps. Perfect for fans
of THE BINDING and THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY.
Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too.Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.
