I can’t recall where this is or how I got here, but I know who I am. Panic spreads through me like a blast of icy cold air. My limbs ache and I’m so very tired I don’t want to open my eyes, until I remember that I can’t. I am only ever me and I am here, where I already know I do not wish to be. I try to hold on, try to be someone and stay somewhere I am not, but I can’t. It smells unfamiliar and I consider the possibility that I’m in a hotel. It feels heavier than it used to, as though it is weighing me down. I sense the light behind my eyelids and my attention is drawn to the platinum band on my finger. For now, for just a second longer, I’m enjoying the self-medicated delusion that permits me to imagine that I could be anyone, I could be anywhere, I could be loved. A moment of intense pleasure or pain, before your senses re- boot and inform you who and where and what you are. Those precious few semiconscious seconds before you open your eyes, when you catch yourself believing that your dreams might just be your reality.

I’ve always delighted in the free fall between sleep and wakefulness.

There are three things you should know about me: A brilliantly assured debut and a real achievement.” ― Nicholas Searle, author of international bestseller The Good LiarĮXCERPT: SOMETIMES I LIE BY ALICE FEENEY Prologue & Chapter 1 And then, suddenly, at the very end, everything became clear. I was led―completely willingly―in various different directions and until the final few pages I was baffled yet engrossed. This story of a woman in a coma recalling the violence in her life gave me just enough information to remain entirely gripped yet sufficiently little that I didn’t know where I’d find the answers, or even the questions at times. “Tightly plotted, superbly written, this is a thriller that grabs you and holds you in its thrall. A brilliant thriller.” - Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me “Exceptional in plotting…Expect perfectly embedded twists and sharply drawn characters. It’s SO fiendishly clever-an absolute masterclass in plotting and narrative design.” - Richard Skinner “I read this in one compulsive gulp in one day. “A gripping debut with a brilliant twist, I LOVED it!” - BA Paris, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors

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