My Second Life - Hardcover

Bird, Faye

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705 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374348863 ISBN 13: 9780374348861

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2016

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Fifteen-year-old Ana has a good life--she has friends and a boy she likes and a kind mother--but still, she's haunted by her past; she knows that she lived once before as Emma and still misses her old family. When, by chance in her life now, she meets a woman she knew then, a terrifying memory flashes through her mind of a young girl drowning. Was Emma responsible? And should Ana pay the price? Consumed by guilt, Ana sets out to find out as much as possible about the person she was before and what she had done, only to discover that the family she misses so deeply had dark secrets of its own. To come to terms with her life now, she finally figures out how to let go of the past.

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Review:

A haunting debut that grips you from the outset. --The Bookseller

An ingenious concept, an intriguing mystery and a gripping story told with pace and passion... An amazing and thrilling debut. --Blackpool Gazette

My Second Life is heartbreaking, heartracing, has an amazing lead character and the story is like nothing I have read before. I can't recommend this book highly enough. --Reading Away the Days

A rich, dense read which skilfully employs dramatic tension to absorb the reader wholly into a constantly shifting world of revelation. --Books for Keeps

My Second Life is heartbreaking, heartracing, has an amazing lead character and the story is like nothing I have read before. I can't recommend this book highly enough. --Reading Away the Days

This debut thriller gets off to a cracking start... Bird looks like an enticing prospect if she can build on this. --The Daily Mail

My Second Life is heartbreaking, heartracing, has an amazing lead character and the story is like nothing I have read before. I can't recommend this book highly enough. --Reading Away the Days

I was completely gripped throughout the story. --Once Upon a Bookcase

An astonishingly accomplished debut novel. Highly recommended. --School Librarian

A clever plot, defined characters, and fabulous writing. There isn't much more you could ask for. My Second Life is bound to be rushed off bookshop shelves very soon. --Guardian Children's Books

About the Author:

Faye Bird worked as a literary agent representing TV and film screenwriters before becoming a writer herself. She lives in London with her husband and their two children. My Second Life is her first novel.

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