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Remember Me This Way by Sabine Durrant

Remember Me This Way

by Sabine Durrant

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  • May 2015, 368 pages
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Everyone keeps telling me I have to move on. And so here I am, walking down the road where he died, trying to remember him the right way.

A year after her husband Zach's death, Lizzie goes to lay flowers where his fatal accident took place.

As she makes her way along the road, she thinks about their life together. She wonders whether she has changed since Zach died. She wonders if she will ever feel whole again.

At last she reaches the spot. And there, tied to a tree, is a bunch of lilies. The flowers are addressed to her husband. Someone has been there before her.

Lizzie loved Zach. She really did. But she's starting to realize she didn't really know him. Or what he was capable of…

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"Despite the book's shortcomings, the author redeems herself in the end, displaying undeniable growth and sharpened literary skills since her first novel." - Kirkus

"In alternate chapters narrated by Zach and Lizzie, Durrant (Under Your Skin, 2014) develops her characters skillfully as she builds tension in this involving novel of psychological suspense with a lingering undercurrent of sadness." - Booklist

"The suspense builds with each page as secrets are revealed and the sense of menace grows at each turn. Durrant's fast-paced psychological thriller will satisfy readers who enjoyed Elizabeth Haynes's Into the Darkest Corner." - Library Journal

"If Sabine Durrant's previous psychological thriller Under your Skin, was indebted to Agatha Christie, the centrality of Cornwall in Remember Me This Way suggests Christie has been displaced by Daphne du Maurier.... While Under your Skin was striking, this is a stronger performance." - Sunday Times (UK)

"Durrant is too cool simply to indulge the obvious. Brilliant on social signifiers and observation, her intelligent interpretation of the world and its psychologically complex inhabitants shines all the way to a satisfactory ending." - Daily Mail (UK)

"Grips immediately... Durrant sustains the mystery throughout and offers a clever resolution." - The Times (UK)

"Creepy and emotionally acute." - The Spectator (UK)

"Durrant's debut, Under your Skin, was among the best of the wave of psychological thrillers that appeared in the wake of Gone Girl's success. Remember Me This Way is better still...An elegant,quietly chilling illustration of the ways in which lovers blind themselves to reality." - Mail on Sunday (UK)

"When a thriller leaves you looking over your shoulder, it's a sign the author's doing something right. In fact Durrant doesn't put a foot wrong with this assured and deeply unsettling chiller... Superb." - The Sunday Mirror (UK)

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Sabine Durrant

Sabine Durrant is a former assistant editor of The Guardian and a former literary editor at The Sunday Times whose feature writing has appeared in numerous British national newspapers and magazines. She is currently a magazine profile writer for The Sunday Telegraph and a contributor to The Guardian's family section. She lives in south London with her partner, sportswriter Giles Smith, and their three children.

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