The Life Lucy Knew

Lucy Sparks has it all—a great career, a handsome husband. So she believes, until the day she wakes up in a hospital and discovers the life she's been living for the past four years is a fabrication. The road to recovery is a difficult one, with potholes of perceived truth and the random earth-shattering drop of finding out that the incident in question is a false memory her injured brain created out of whole cloth. Brown (The Choices We Make), well known for her heartfelt and layered portraits of regular people, weaves threads of an emotional journey in which Lucy's first-person point of view is occasionally peppered with a third-person chapter, signifying memories that may or may not be real. Secondary characters, including boyfriend Matt, her parents, and believed husband Daniel, are realistic and three-dimensional, but it's Lucy herself who is the center of this story, a flawed, relatable character facing an incredible situation. Her emotions swing frequently on her way to discovering that her life is only what she makes it.