![]() ![]() Her friends have abandoned her, or she has pushed them away. She cannot talk to her mother, whose early onset Alzheimer’s leaves her often unable to tell who Sue is. She cannot trust her new partner John, nor later in life her husband Brian or her daughter’s friends. ![]() The Accident is a novel about secrets, but it is also a story of intense loneliness: the loneliness of not having anyone to talk to, to trust a situation that Sue finds herself in not once but twice in the book. ![]() The plot is interwoven with scenes from Sue’s past, flashbacks to the beginning of an intense relationship with the handsome and mysterious John, a relationship that may prove to be related to Charlotte’s coma. Spurred on by a worrying line in Charlotte’s diary, Sue sets out to uncover the secret behind the accident. Whilst Brian and the hospital staff are resigned to sit and wait, Sue convinces herself that Charlotte’s misfortune was not an accident, that she tried to kill herself and is too scared to wake up. Weeks have passed and the doctors can’t explain, medically, why she isn’t waking up. ![]() Their 15-year-old daughter, Charlotte, lies in a coma having been hit by a bus. Sue and Brian Jackson have suffered a family tragedy. Taylor is perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep, and with its well-conceived troubled heroine and themes of secrets and deceit, that pitches it about right. According to the blurb, this dark debut from C. ![]()
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