Nothing better than starting to read a book knowing that everything is going to explode into the air. In that chicha calm of a psychological thriller lies part of the great morbid delight of a reader eager for narrative tension. East book «The woman who did not exist» abounds in that recurring notion about identity, about instinct, about the hidden past. In a way it reminds me of a novel I recently reviewed: «It is not mine«. Although both novels focus on different themes, they end up coming together in the perspective of tension due to a hidden truth about the protagonist, away from the rest of the characters who observe the drift of events in astonishment.
And why not say it, in the cases of both novels it is also a sinister point of interest. Something like "The one who awaits you, gentle character accommodated in your well-being"
The respected and admired Zoe lives hovering over a past that now only seems like a shadow only capable of altering her dreams from time to time. In his new life everything smiles at him, love, economic prosperity and social position. Nothing easier than to forget when the new appears to a full life.
Only ..., as on so many other occasions, the moment of click, of connection, of the bond that finally ends up narrowing past and present arrives. In fact, you only have to go back five years to find who Zoe really was. Not even she can evoke those gray, labyrinthine days, a time when her life hung by a thread until she managed to untangle the tangle that sewed a fateful destiny for her.
And the moment of transformation arrives, of adaptation to the demands of that past inconceivable for a woman like Zoe. From then on, we plunged into the maximum tension that we were waiting for, that knot through which the protagonist has to travel with her vital balance between the shadow of what she was and what she pretended to have been.
But beyond the impossible fit between her secrets and her new life, what is truly relevant is the looming danger that looms over Zoe, or rather over that other person who was and who left so many pending accounts ...
You can now buy the book The Woman Who Did Not Exist, the new book by Kate Moretti, here: