First published 2025
Dr. Edward Marsden remembers everything—and nothing. After fifty years of precise surgical practice, his photographic memory begins to fragment. Strange gaps appear in his recollections: a critical operation from 1982, his wife's final months, entire stretches of professional achievement now blurred. When a former patient arrives with a medical malpractice claim that challenges his most treasured memories, Marsden must reconstruct his past from scattered fragments. His adult daughter, a neurological researcher, watches his cognitive unraveling with clinical detachment and growing alarm. As medical records contradict his remembered narrative, Marsden realizes that memory is not a reliable document—it's a living, malleable construct that can simultaneously protect and betray.
Genres: literary-fiction, medical, contemporary, psychological-thriller
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: medical-mystery, unreliable-narrator
64 pages · Paperback · Notting Hill Editions
Content warnings: medical-trauma