TELL ME AN ENDING

544 pages | Hardback/ebook/ audiobook. Author Jo Harkin. Publisher Hutchinson Heinemann

- Rhian Drinkwater

RELEASED 12 MAY

4/5

Just how much of who we are is defined by our memories? It’s a question posed by many philosophers as well as Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, all of whom are referenced in this entertaining and thought-provoking book.

Nepenthe are a chain of clinics who offer memory removal. It’s a controversial procedure, made more so when allegations of “traces” – fragments of memory that resurface – lead to legal proceedings and an obligation for Nepenthe to contact all clients to offer to restore their memories.

But for those who don’t remember having a memory removed, and don’t know what it was – so-called “selfconfidentials” – it’s an almost impossible decision. Would you restore a memory you know nothing of except that you once found it unbearable? Or could you live with knowing that a piece of you was removed, and you’ll never know what it was?