The Puzzle of You
By (Author) Leah Mercer
Amazon Publishing
Lake Union Publishing
1st November 2019
1st November 2019
United States
General
Fiction
Paperback
288
She's woken up in a life she doesn't recognise with a daughter she doesn't remember.
When Charlotte McKay wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to go back to the perfect London flat she shares with her husband, and the impressive career she's worked so hard to build. But something's not right. Her husband David is at her bedside but so is a three-year-old girl, and she's calling Charlotte 'Mummy'
Charlotte's first instinct is panic. When why did she have a child What about her promotion, her independence, her romantic weekends with David She loved being that woman: how can she have turned into the stay-at-home mother she swore she'd never be Back at home, she dives into her unfamiliar world, hoping to piece together the mystery of her transformation. But faced with so much that feels foreign and unnatural, will she ever be happy in a life she can't remember having or wanting to have
Leah Mercer was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada. By the age of thirteen, shed finished her first novel and received very encouraging rejections from publishers. Leah put writing on hold to focus on athletics, achieving provincial records and becoming a Canadian university champion in the 4 400-metre relay. After getting her BA, she turned to writing again, earning a masters in journalism. A few years later she left Canada and settled in London, where she now lives with her husband and their young son. Leah also writes under the name Talli Roland, and her books have been shortlisted at the UKs Romantic Novelists Association Awards.