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.
โMy Name Was Eden is a compulsive, didn't-see-it-coming thriller.โโAbigail Dean, international bestselling author of Girl A
One 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 teenagerโs accident.
Until Eden tells her that Eden isnโt her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Edenโs unborn twin.
Donโt worry, says the doctor. Eden is completely fine, says her husband. Of course Iโm fine, Eden says, with that strange new smile of hers. I didnโt die. Iโm here.
But Lucy knows somethingโs very wrong with Eden. Sheโs not her maddening, complicated teenage girl anymoreโthis straight-backed, even tempered, steady-eyed child in her house is someone else entirely. Eden, it seems, is the twin who disappeared...
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 Peopleโs Friend magazines. She has previously worked with children and families in family courts, His Majestyโs Prison service, and childrenโs 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.