Memory Chamber - Holly Cave (Hardcover)
Description
An afterlife of your own design, what could go wrong? The dark and gripping thriller from an exciting new voice in speculative fiction.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 9781786485359
- Department
- Books
- Released
- 22 Feb 2018
- Supply Source
- UK
Book
- Author
- Holly Cave
- Subtitle
- The dark and addictive thriller that will blow your mind
- Binding
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Language
- English
- Number of Pages
- 400
- Dimensions
- 240 x 156 x 156mm (614g)
Annotation
An afterlife of your own design, what could go wrong? The dark and
gripping thriller from an exciting new voice in speculative
fiction. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror.
Summary
'An elegant tale of love and loss, memory and murder, set in an
edgy near-future' Daily Mail
'The Memory Chamber is captivating from the first page' Daily Express
'Will mess with your head' Emerald Street
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True death is a thing of the past...
Now you can spend the rest of eternity re-living your happiest memories: that first kiss, falling in love, the birth of your children, enjoyed on loop for ever and ever.
Isobel is a Heaven Architect, and she helps dying people create afterlives from these memories. So when she falls for Jarek, one of her terminal - and married - clients, she knows that while she cannot save him, she can create the most beautiful of heavens, just for him.
But when Jarek's wife is found dead, Isobel uncovers a darker side of the world she works within, and she can trust no one with what she finds...
The Memory Chamber is a thrilling and original story which vaults the reader into a world that is terrifyingly close to our own, where we can avoid everything we fear - even death itself. But can we ever escape the truth? Perfect for fans of Black Mirror.
**********
'Thought-provoking and totally absorbing' Candis
'Provocative . . . a thrilling read' Psychologies
'Strikingly original and impossible to put down' John Marrs, author of The One
'The Memory Chamber is captivating from the first page' Daily Express
'Will mess with your head' Emerald Street
**********
True death is a thing of the past...
Now you can spend the rest of eternity re-living your happiest memories: that first kiss, falling in love, the birth of your children, enjoyed on loop for ever and ever.
Isobel is a Heaven Architect, and she helps dying people create afterlives from these memories. So when she falls for Jarek, one of her terminal - and married - clients, she knows that while she cannot save him, she can create the most beautiful of heavens, just for him.
But when Jarek's wife is found dead, Isobel uncovers a darker side of the world she works within, and she can trust no one with what she finds...
The Memory Chamber is a thrilling and original story which vaults the reader into a world that is terrifyingly close to our own, where we can avoid everything we fear - even death itself. But can we ever escape the truth? Perfect for fans of Black Mirror.
**********
'Thought-provoking and totally absorbing' Candis
'Provocative . . . a thrilling read' Psychologies
'Strikingly original and impossible to put down' John Marrs, author of The One
Fiction
- General Subject
- Fiction
- BISAC Subject 2
- Fiction / Technological
- BISAC Subject 3
- Fiction / Literary
- BISAC Subject 4
- Fiction / Romance / Suspense
- BISAC Subject 5
- Fiction / Science Fiction / General
- BIC Classification 1
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- BIC Classification 2
- Thriller / suspense
- BIC Classification 3
- Science fiction
- BIC Classification 4
- Romance
- Dewey Classification
- 823.92
- Readership
- General (US: Trade)
Author Bio
Holly Cave was born in sunny Torquay in 1983. She received a BSc in
Biology and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College
London, after which she spent four years working at the Science
Museum in London. After a career break to travel the world, Holly
became a freelance writer and now writes about science and
technology alongside her fiction. She lives in Bedford with her
husband, baby son and dog. The Memory Chamber is her first novel
with Quercus, although she wrote a number of unpublished works with
her father on his typewriter in the 1990s.