Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is he's already there. Noah is a little boy who knows things he shouldn't and remembers things he should have forgotten. Because as well as being a four-year-old called Noah, he remembers being a nine-year-old called Tommy. He remembers his house. His family. His mother. And now he wants to go home. Two boys. Two mothers. One unforgettable story.
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[On the eve of her thirty-ninth birthday, on the bleakest day of the worst February in memory, Janie made what would turn out to be the pivotal decision of her life: she decided to take a vacation]***
(Pan, 1 September 2016, first published 2 February 2016, paperback, 405 pages, bought from @AmazonUK)
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This book is incredibly sad. I'd never heard of the book or the author before I bought it years ago when Amazon were doing a 3 for £10 paperback deal. I'm glad I took a chance on it. I'd only read a few chapters when I blasted through it in a couple of hours. The Forgetting Time is different from other books I have read. This is part mystery part supernatural chiller with a few other things thrown in. Janie, Noah's mother is a great character. I really felt for her as she struggled to help her son and find out why he behaves so strangely and seems to be two very different little boys. I love the way the book is paced. The Forgetting Time is heart-breaking at times. This is a great book.
