The One Memory of Flora Banks
A cross between Memento and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this is a unique, breathtaking page-turner about a girl with no short-term memory and her remarkable journey to find the one boy able to penetrate her fractured mind.
Seventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. She lives under the careful watch of her parents, in a town she is familiar with, among people who are equally familiar with her story. She has not been able to recall any part of her past since she was ten, when the tumor that was removed from her brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves…
Emily Barr has written columns and travel pieces for London's Observer and The Guardian. After traveling around Asia for a year, she settled back down in England to write novels. The author of Backpack and Baggage, Emily Barr lives with her husband and two-year-old son, Gabriel.
