My Name Was Eden, Eleanor BarkerWhite
My Name Was Eden, Eleanor BarkerWhite
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My Name Was Eden
A Novel

Author: Eleanor Barker-White

Narrator: Lucy Price-Lewis

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 02/27/2024

Synopsis

For fans of The Push and The Undoing, an edge-of-your-seat thriller that peels back the layers of a family that's not as perfect as it seems.“My Name Was Eden is a compulsive, didn't-see-it-coming thriller.”—Abigail Dean, international bestselling author of Girl AOne twin vanished. The other twin remained. Until now...When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly relieved. Eden had survived a drowning incident and had no apparent brain damage, no serious injuries, not even a scratch on her. Lucy fervently welcomed having a second chance at being the good mother she should have been before her teenager’s accident.Until Eden tells her that Eden isn’t her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Eden’s unborn twin.Don’t worry, says the doctor. Eden is completely fine, says her husband. Of course I’m fine, Eden says, with that strange new smile of hers. I didn’t die. I’m here.But Lucy knows something’s very wrong with Eden. She’s not her maddening, complicated teenage girl anymore—this straight-backed, even tempered, steady-eyed child in her house is someone else entirely. Eden, it seems, is the twin who disappeared…

About Eleanor Barker-White

Eleanor Barker-White holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa university. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit Prize, and has had a number of short stories published in Best of British and The People’s Friend magazines. She has previously worked with children and families in family courts, His Majesty’s Prison service, and children’s charities, and remains fascinated by the endless capacity for human resilience. She was born and raised in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but now lives in Wiltshire with her husband and four children. My Name Was Eden is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Catherine

**Many thanks to Scene of the Crime, William Morrow, and Eleanor Barker-White for an ARC of this book via NetGalley! Now available as of 2.27!** Lucy was so thrilled to FINALLY be pregnant...but even more excited when she discovered she was having twins. She had the names picked out (Eden and Eli) an......more

Goodreads review by Jillian

Lucy is devastated when Eli, one of her unborn twins, disappears in utero. Known as “vanishing twin syndrome,” it usually happens when one twin fetus is absorbed by the other. She loves her remaining child, Eden, but struggles to bond with her as she grows up, and misses Eli to the point of buying g......more

Goodreads review by Andrea | andrea.c.lowry.reads

What an excellent debut full of layers and complex characters that come to life and had me feeling all their emotions from the beginning! 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆? My Name Was Eden is one of those books that has a slow burn creepy factor, so I found myself a little bit on edge and unnerv......more

Goodreads review by Gigi

The longer I think about it, the more holes I find in the plot. It was definitely intriguing and unputdownable, but it left so many questions unanswered. Why did Eden go into the water? What has she told Charlie? Why was Lucy hiding things? Just too many holes to be satisfying.......more

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