One woman is about to discover everything she believesâknowsâto be true about her life...isnât.
After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man sheâs known and loved for yearsâthe man she recently marriedâis not actually her husband. In fact, they havenât even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detailâright down to the dress she wore to their weddingâis only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucyâs mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma.
Her psychologist explains the condition as honest lying, because while Lucyâs memories are false, they still feel incredibly real. Now she has no idea which memories she can trustâa devastating experience not only for Lucy, but also for her family, friends and especially her devoted boyfriend, Matt, whom Lucy remembers merely as a work colleague.
When the life Lucy believes she had slams against the reality sheâs been living for the past four years, she must make a difficult choice about which life she wants to lead, and who she really is.
About the Author
KARMA BROWN is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestsellers Come Away with Me, The Choices We Make and In This Moment. In addition to her novels, Karmaâs writing has appeared in publications such as SELF, Redbook, Canadian Living, Todayâs Parent and Chatelaine. Karma lives outside Toronto, Canada, with her husband, daughter and their labradoodle, Fred. The Life Lucy Knew is her most recent novel.
www.KarmaKBrown.com
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Ebook Edition © June 2018 ISBN: 9781474083683
PRAISE FOR THE LIFE LUCY KNEW
â[F]ascinating and deeply moving. Iâm sure Iâll be thinking about this powerful, compelling story for a long time to come.â
âJill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost
âAn emotionally complex journey... Brown delivers characters so vivid and truly likeable that itâs impossible to leave the book without feeling just a little bit better for having known them.â
âJamie Brenner, bestselling author of The Husband Hour
âBrown is at the top of her game. Packed with rich layers and surprise revelations... [A] captivating love story.â
âKerry Lonsdale, bestselling author of Everything We Left Behind
â[This] is the kind of story that engrosses you in a characterâs life while making you contemplate your own. A fascinating look at what we most want to remember, and what weâd just as soon forget.â
âJessica Strawser, author of Almost Missed You
PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF KARMA BROWN
â[A] meticulous study of unresolved guilt and buried secrets.... An admirably layered portrait of how love can bend and still not break, and how the pain of betrayal and lost innocence, once confronted, can slowly fade.â
âPublishers Weekly on In This Moment
âBrown delivers an emotional punch in The Choices We Make. This is a good, old-fashioned tear-jerker of a book.â
âThe Toronto Star
âWith effortless and beautiful writing, Karma Brown twists heartache and hope together in The Choices We Make, taking you on each characterâs complicated emotional journey and exploring how the worst-case scenario can still bring joy.â
âAmy E. Reichert, author of Luck, Love & Lemon Pie
âA warmly compelling love story [and] deeply moving debut.â
âBooklist
â[A] beautifully written story of love and loss... Come Away with Me had me smiling through my tears.â
âTracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author of On the Island
âKarma Brown is a talented new voice in womenâs fiction.â
âLori Nelson Spielman, bestselling author of The Life List
âLaughing one minute, then fiercely blinking back tears the next, we tore through this novelâso gripping that we were both excited and scared out of our minds to turn the page. Multilayered and completely consuming...[a] stunning page turner.â