The Agreed Version

di Faycal Berrouche (Autore)

Faycal Berrouche, 2026

After the death of the woman she has always known as her mother, Evelyn Mercer returns to the family home in Bellmere to sort through the remains of a carefully ordered life. Instead, she discovers documents revealing a truth that unsettles everything she thought she knew: she was born Anna Vale, the daughter of Lydia, Caroline Mercer's younger sister, who died after a fall at a summer house in Cape May decades earlier. As Evelyn investigates with her brother Daniel, she discovers that her adoption was only the beginning. Her age was altered, her identity rewritten, and Lydia's death absorbed into an account the family had every reason to preserve. Letters, legal memoranda, photographs, and a blue notebook in Lydia's own hand point toward a summer marked by fear, coercion, and the influence of Julian Cross, a wealthy man whose reputation was protected by class and silence. Then Evelyn finds a cassette recorded on the night Lydia fell. Its contents do not offer an easy answer, but they cast the accepted account in a different light. With the help of her husband Ben, Daniel, and the last surviving witnesses, Evelyn begins assembling a record that separates what can be proved from what has long been kept out of sight. The trail leads her toward a confrontation with Julian and toward a more difficult question: what does it mean to reclaim a life when so much of its history was decided by others? The Agreed Version is a literary mystery about family complicity, inherited silence, and the stories people preserve in the name of love. It asks who has the right to shape another person's past and what remains when the version everyone agreed to protect can no longer hold.

• Autore: Faycal Berrouche
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Faycal Berrouche
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798237076554