The Book of M - Softcover

Shepherd, Peng

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008225613 ISBN 13: 9780008225612

Publisher: HarperVoyager, 2018

Synopsis

A vivid, touching and original debut, following the effects of an extraordinary catastrophe on very ordinary people.

In the middle of a market in India, a man’s shadow disappears. As rolling twenty-four-hour news coverage tries to explain the event, more cases are discovered. The phenomenon spreads like a plague as people learn the true cost of their lost part: their memories.

Two years later, Ory and his wife Max have escaped ‘the Forgetting’ by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods in Virgina. They have settled into their new reality, until Max, too, loses her shadow.

Knowing the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to the person most precious to her, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up what little time they have left before she loses her memory completely, and desperately follows her trail.

On their separate journeys, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a mysterious new force growing in the south that may hold the cure. But neither could have guessed at what you gain when you lose your shadow: the power of magic.

A breathtakingly imaginative, timeless story that explores fundamental questions about memory and love ― the price of forgetting, the power of connection, and what it means to be human when your world is turned upside down.

About this title

About the Author

Peng Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York. Her debut novel, The Book of M, has been featured in The Guardian, io9 Gizmodo, Book Riot, and Elle Canada. She is a winner of the Elizabeth George Foundation's emerging writers grant. 

Visit Peng online at pengshepherd.com, and find her on Facebook and Twitter: @pengshepherd.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0008225613
• ISBN 13: 9780008225612
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 496