January 2015.
Silvia is found at home by her husband, hanging from the chandelier in their bedroom. She is not dead, she just lost consciousness, and Paolo has time to call for help and save her life.
But when Silvia wakes up from a coma in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit, she has absolutely no idea how she got there and what happened to her. In addition, the accident, as she will always refer to it, causes her an ischemic stroke, which significantly reduces her ability to move as well as speak.
But, contrary to everyone’s expectations Silvia, certain she would have never committed suicide, will not surrender to the evidence of the facts, nor to the damages to her body. She gladly complies with the treatments, the physiotherapy sessions, the sessions with the speech therapist and the psychotherapist, in order to take control of her life and show everyone that things are not the way they seem and certainly not what they want her to believe.
With the help of her father and daughter Marianna, she will attempt in every way to recover that part of her memory that is missing, containing the retentions she has lost, immediately preceding her suicide. To accomplish this, she will have to reconstruct the events that have happened to her and dig into her past, where she will find the roots of her bad luck, which, piece by piece, will lead her to a truth that she could never have imagined .
Finalist at the Literary Competition "Io Scrittore" 2017
Finally a book you can’t put down.
What draws you in right away is the timeframe around which the plot is built; the narration captures the reader by cleverly switching between the present and brief flashbacks of a life revealed to the reader little by little.
The plot is finely constructed so that, in the end, all the pieces fit together.
A refined and elegant piece of work, without blurring or slanting the facts. The reader immediately empathizes with the protagonist even before knowing what is really happening.
A truly original novel.
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