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2000s: Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie’s world is torn apart
The Day of the Accident
What you need to know before your trail
The police have just told Maggie that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.
When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter’s funeral.
What really happened that day at the river?
Where is Maggie’s husband?
And why can’t she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow, her daughter is still alive?
Travel Guide
Travel BookTrail style to Lewes and Rodmell
Whilst the modern day story unravels in Lewes (notably the Plough Inn and the nearby hospital) the background is set in a story which mirrors that of one in the past. The historical thread is the story of Virginia Woolf , the author who took her own life in the river close to her summer retreat in Rodmell.
Virginia Woolf
In mid 1919, Virginia Woolf and her husband bought Monk’s House in Rodmell. It was a weatherboarded house with oak beamed rooms and had an impressive orchard and garden. It didn’t have any water and electricity at the time, but had a view across the Ouse towards the hills of the South Downs. From 1940 it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed, and Virginia continued to live there until her death in 1941.
The story of Maggie weaves the thread of Virginia Woolf into a present day strand of mystery and more.
Streetview Maps
C) Lewes - Victoria Hospital
D) Rodmell - Virginia Woolfs House
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
This book has more twisty moments in it than those country lanes in Lewes where it’s set! Links to Virginia Woolf and her home in Rodmell?
A woman wakes up from a coma to be told her daughter is dead and her husband gone. There’s two reasons to keep reading right away, but then things take an altogether darker tone if that’s possible and when you include links to a famous writer who committed suicide in a lake…and the daughter in the present day who is said to have died in water as well…this makes the claustrophobia of that hospital room spread across the Lewes countryside.
A study of the mind, what it means to recover memories and thoughts and work out what is real and what is not. It’s an interesting take on a patient recovering their memory and working out what is going on!
And Rodmell’s historical literary interest gets a modern twist
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Day of the Accident
Destination : Lewes, Rodmell Author/Guide: Nuala Ellwood Departure Time: 2000s
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