My Name Was Eden

A HarperNorth lead debut for 2024, this high-concept book-club thriller is inspired by the author's own experience of Vanishing Twin Syndrome One twin vanished. One twin reappeared. 'A fantastic debut - unpredictable, tense and absorbing' ROSE CARLYLE, #1 international bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror 'Dark and creepy . . . in the most compelling way. A proper page-turner' KATY BRENT, bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away with It * When Eden is rescued from the lake, her mother Lucy is profoundly relieved. No one knows why the 14-year-old Eden almost drowned on her way home from school. But now she's safe, Lucy has a second chance at being a good mother. The mother she should have always been, before the loss of Eden's twin during the pregnancy consumed Lucy, all those years ago. But when Eden wakes up in hospital, she claims that Eden isn't her name. That her name is Eli - the name Lucy had reserved for the unborn twin. Could it be that all this time, Lucy's grief has been misplaced? Eden, it seems, is the twin who's really disappeared . . . * 'Peels back the layers of family life . . . Had me reading far too late into the night' TAMMY COHEN, author of The Wedding Party 'A major new voice in psychological thrillers' MINDY MEJIA, bestselling author of Everything You Want Me to Be