This is the story of a woman who tells in first person the terrifying experience that falls on him one morning upon awakening: it does not recognize its environment nor man asleep at his side and not surprising as have followed an unknown home only to realize that it is much older and more married ... But the nightmare really begins when she finds herself in the mirror in the guise of a woman mature as she thinks they are 20. Incredulous and terrified she learns that she is 47 years old, the man beside her is her husband Ben, and suffers from a rare form of amnesia.
His condition was triggered by trauma when she was 29 years old and since that time, every morning his memory was erased and she does not remember anything, except for snatches of his childhood. This is the man who shares his daily which should reassure patiently every morning and explain his situation. Another man, a neuropsychologist doctor will also come forward to help him, in rather mysterious circumstances, telling him among other noted the contents of his days with his quest to reconstruct the history of his life on a newspaper will be the main substance of the story.
There is a subtle suspense which is distilled throughout this narrative which devours like a page-turner, the author excels cast doubt on each character. Besides being written in simple and accessible to an average angliciste English, it is a book that generates emotions and deep thoughts, with beautiful passages - on course memory but especially questioning about the truth and lies.