Mr. Nobody has been found on a beach soaking wet with no shoes during England's winter. Taken to a hospital in Norfolk, he cannot seem to speak nor does he know who he is. Enter Dr. Emma Lewis, a neuropsychologist who specializes in memory loss.
While the assignment is a challenge for Dr. Lewis, she is put off by the location in Norfolk where she will have to return in order to oversee Mr. Nobody's case. Apparently, something happened to her in Norfolk when she was a teenager that landed her family into the witness protection program.
Thinking that she has changed so much from that traumatized teen, Dr. Lewis takes on the patient, who, while not recognizing anyone else, calls her by her former name, "Marn." Who is this man? Could he possibly be her father? Of course not as she found him in the study on that last night in Norfolk as a teen. Mr. Nobody's story will twist and turn before reaching its climax back in the house where Emma lived as a teen.
This is Catherine Steadman's second novel. I enjoyed her first book Something is in the Water (2018) that Reese Witherspoon has optioned for a movie. Steadman is also a British actress with her most famous role as Mabel Lane Fox, Mary's rival in Downton's Abbey.
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