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A review by katiedermody
The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
This is one of Jewell's earlier books that I hadn't read yet. I tend to enjoy her newer thrillers to her older family dramas, but I really liked this one! Melody Browne is in her 30s, and the son she had at 15 is about to turn 18. Aside from her son, nothing in her life changes because she has always been plagued by the fact that she has no memories before waking up after the fire that destroyed her family's home when she was nine and this causes her to doubt herself and her mind all the time. Realizing she is in a rut, she decides to go on a date for the first time in forever and when they're attending a hypnotist show she goes on stage and then passes out. After that night she starts to get flashes of what seem like memories of herself as a little girl, things she's previously never known before and don't match up with that she's been told about her childhood. She decides to start searching out the places and people she sees in her memories to try and discover what really happened to her back then. Even though it was in no means a thriller, I think I enjoyed the solve a mystery vibe of this one.