The Life I Left Behind — culturefly.co.uk

The Life I Left Behind is Colette McBeth’s second novel and it’s another psychological crime drama (her first, Precious Thing, was published in 2013). The narrative is given by three characters. First there’s the protagonist Melody who, following an attack several years ago, has become a claustrophobic recluse afraid to leave the house alone, although she does her best to conceal it. The man who was tried and convicted of her attack, David, has recently been released from prison and now another woman, Eve, has been attacked in similar circumstances, although this time she wasn’t left for dead, she is dead.

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