Today it's my pleasure to be part of the blog tour for Deborah Bee's debut novel The Last Thing I Remember which was published last week by Twenty7, the new digital-first imprint of Bonnier Publishing, Twenty7 are certainly spoiling us with an abundance of exciting new authors to keep an eye on.Deborah Bee studied fashion journalism at Central St Martins. She has worked at various magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Times and the Guardian as a writer, a fashion editor and later an editor. Currently, she is a Creative Director in luxury retail.
Sarah is in a coma.Her memory is gone - she doesn't know how she got there. And she doesn't know how she might get out.
But then she discovers that her injury wasn't an accident. And that the assailant hasn't been caught.
Unable to speak, see or move, Sarah must use every clue that she overhears to piece together her own past.
And work out who it is that keeps coming into her room.
Sarah is in a coma. She is unable to move, unable to see, unable to communicate, unable to remember. Her past is a blank piece of paper. She doesn’t even know her own name. But she can hear. And she pieces together her past and present by overhearing the voices of her family and the medical team. Sarah was mugged. That’s what they all say. She’s in a coma. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She didn’t deserve any of it. She’s a nice girl from a nice family. A tragic victim of circumstance. They all agree on that.
She may survive – or not.
Kelly is in the waiting room. She’s just a kid, a typical schoolgirl. Bullied a bit, probably, given her prissy uniform. She doesn’t know anything. They all agree on that, too. So how come she’s there? Why does she keep turning up? What does she care? And who is the nameless man who keeps visiting at night?
If you had to describe The Last Thing I Remember in one sentence, what would it be?
It ain’t War and Peace, that’s for sure.
