About a tortured woman desperate to retrieve her memories.

Thanks for the book!

I'm looking forward to reading this one. It's next after my current read Writers Writing edited by Jenny Brown and Shona Munro, c. 1993. -- Hi, Cindy :)

I collect quotes as I read. These ones are fun, poetical, or even philosophical. Take what you like, and leave the rest. Note that these aren't necessarily the "best" in the book. These happen to be close to the spot where I stopped reading each night.

comment: sometimes i get on etymology binges. This time the term is "dead as a doornail." -- ... dating from about 1350. Its meaning is disputed but most likely it referred to the costly metal nails hammered into the outer doors of the wealthy (most people used the much cheaper wooden pegs), which were clinched on the inside of the door and therefore were "dead," that is, could not be used again. -- source: dictionary.com

As she pushed back the single strand of hair that always managed to fall on her forehead, she thought of the verse written by a nineteenth-century poet: "Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear." p202

Update Feb 4th, 2005 --
I'm about 20 pages from the end of the book and I have to say that it is a page turner for me. I don't usually read this genre so it is keeping my interest. For some reason I thought mysteries and thrillers were only blood and guts -- but they're not. I will read another of hers for sure.

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