Frozen Summer - Softcover

Morrison, Crysse

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340748648 ISBN 13: 9780340748640

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 1999

Synopsis

Kirsty wakes in a strange house. She is told this is her home, chosen and decorated by her.

A little girl calls her 'Mummy' - but Kirsty has never seen her before.

A man tells her they are married to each other. She dislikes him. He's not her type at all.

They say she is not Kirsty Middleton, a twenty-year-old photography student. She is Kirsten Villiers, twenty-nine, married, a mother. She slipped, knocked herself out, and now nearly a decade of her life is forgotten.

The world has become a frightening place for Kirsty, peopled by strangers who say they know her, and by familiar faces changed by time. Then the devastating secrets of Kirsten Villiers' present begin to reveal themselves and Kirsty starts to understand why amnesia might be preferable to knowing the truth.

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Review:

RAVE LETTER FROM KATIE FFORDE:
Dear Crysse,
I have just finished FROZEN SUMMER having sat and read it when I should have been doing a thousand other things. I think it is absolutely stunning - a really brilliant, unputdownable book . . . The fact that it is your first novel is very amazing . . . You have wrapped physiological thriller, a voyage of self discovery and a romance into an addictive package. You know you are really loving a book when every trip to the loo is an excuse to read some more.
The idea is fascinating and you have carried it off superbly. The writing itself is excellent, crafted, but sounding natural . . . A million congratulations.

Absolutely stunning - a really brilliant, unputdownable book...unconditionally brilliant...[Crysse Morrison has] wrapped a physiological thriller, a voyage of self discovery and a romance into an addictive package. You know you are really loving a book when every trip to the loo is an excuse to read some more (KATIE FFORDE)

It is a dark, paranoid, edgy thriller which had me completely absorbed from the first page, but it is also so much more satisfying than a simple thriller...a thoroughly modern novel, a suburban fairy tale in which the Sleeping Beauty awakes to find herself alone, fighting for sanity against the dragons of her own past...As facts, discoveries and revelations drop into place one by one, the tension escalates into a climax which is both startling and inevitable (Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLAT)

Lots of love, Katie

It is refreshing to start 2000 with the kind of book that will never go out of fashion: a good psychological thriller, pacily told...with echoes of Helen Dunmore, Morrison's debut proves her a superb storyteller (The Times)

From the Publisher:

Forgetting is terrifying - remembering might be worse
Kirsty wakes in a strange house. She is told it is her home, chosen and decorated by her. A little girl calls her 'Mummy' - but Kirsty has never seen her before. A man tells her they are married to each other. She dislikes him. He's not her type at all. They say she is not Kirsty Middleton, a twenty-year-old photography student. She is Kirsten Villiers, twenty-nine, married, a mother. She slipped, knocked herself out and lost nearly a decade of her life. The world is a frightening place for Kirsty, full of strangers who say they know her and familiar faces changed by time. Then the secrets of Kirsten Villiers' present begin to reveal themselves and Kirsty starts to understand why amnesia might be preferable to knowing the truth. 'Absolutely stunning - a really brilliant, unputdownable book' KATIE FFORDE; 'A good psychological thriller, pacily told...with echoes of Helen Dunmore, Morrison's debut proves her a superb storyteller' THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0340748648
• ISBN 13: 9780340748640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320