Ten years ago, Rachel had an affair. It left her life in pieces. Now, writing at her window, she tries to put those pieces together again.
She has her memories, recollections of dreams, and her old yellow notebook. More than anything, she wants to be honest.
Rachel knows that her memory is patchy and her notebook incomplete. But there is something else. Something terrible happened to her lover.
Her account is hypnotic, delicate, disquieting and bold. But is she telling us the truth?
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330544481
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 210 g
Dimensions: 199 x 129 x 19 mm
‘A beautifully written psychological study, cleverly told’ Daily Mail
‘Compelling . . . its haunting tone and sinister implications, about reliability of memory and the fatally destructive impact one action can have, is both chilling and deeply affecting’ Easy Living
‘Will have you reading till 3 a.m.’ Psychologies
‘Classy and accomplished’ Guardian
‘Compelling, gritty and intelligent’ Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
It’s funny how sometimes you can read two books with a similar central premise one after the other. At the heart of Signs of Life, as with Before I Go Sleep, is an affair gone wrong. Both are written from the... More
I devoured this book. The storyteller, Rachel, is recalling an obsessive affair and its disintegration but the details come slowly as she recovers enough to remember. I was so glad that I chose to read this over a... More
Signs of Life by Anna Raverat is one of Waterstones' 11 for 2012, their list of highly recommended debut novels. Last year's picks included The Tiger's Wife (Orange Prizewinner) and Pigeon English (Man... More
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