If your life might be another person’s past… What do they know of you? Could they have the answers you need now?
Carol is a gifted pianist who has never needed anything but her talent – until an untreatable injury stops her playing. Terrified that it might end her career, she moves to a village on the coast to convalesce and teach singing. She becomes beguiled by glimpses of her next life – a healer called Andreq. Is he really what he seems to be? Does his life have any clues that can help her now?
A duet between land and sea, past and future, trance and waking, My Memories of a Future Life shimmers with mystery and questions. It’s a novel about clairvoyants and charlatans, the all-consuming dedication of the professional musician, the shadows that shape us, the yearning for a soul-mate, the tyranny of small towns, and what we do when we lose the thing that gives us our identity.
Adds to the great tradition of the ‘who was I’ tale for readers of Life After Life, Cloud Atlas, Somewhere In Time, Vertigo, Lady of Hay, and The Blind Assassin.
I was seriously impressed by a writer of such skill and confidence. She dances between plausible reality and the shadowy realm of interpretation, underpinned by evident intelligence. A real corker, in fact.
Jill Marsh, Words With Jam
As a bookseller I have to read 100s of books. Rarely do I read books more than once for pleasure – this book is one of them – it really is that good … Roz’s books .. are so good that I just leave copies on the counter, talk about them a bit and let them sell themselves.
Peter Snell, Barton’s Bookshop
Fine writing, skilled storytelling, excellent pacing, twists, turns, and a story that both entertains and informs. What a welcome relief spending time under the spell of such a skilled artist. Amazingly different.
Maryann Madsen
