The Amnesiac
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0571233538 / Publisher: Faber and Faber, March 2007
James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years, and finds a familiar house, now derelict.
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After breaking his leg on the stairs of his Amsterdam apartment, James Purdew finds himself stuck at home with too much time to think. While his relationship with his girlfriend Ingrid begins to disintegrate, James becomes obsessed with the three years of his own past that he cannot recall and he finds himself drawn back to England, and the town of H, where the events of those years took place. But the old, strangely familiar house where he comes to stay has some secrets of its own - including the remnants of a nineteenth-century manuscript of a murder mystery that, incredibly, may offer important clues to his past.
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