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The beautiful fall / Hugh Breakey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melbourne, Vic. : Text publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 349 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781922330543
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Read this now. Right now. Don't even think of going near that door. Not until you know what's going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you're standing in is your home." Every 179 days, Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter explaining it. The disorientation. The fear. The bizarre circumstances imposed by the rare neurological condition he lives with. To survive the forgetting - to cope with his recurring loss of identity - Robbie leads a solitary, regimented life. Lives alone. Speaks to no one if he can avoid it. Works to complete a strange herculean task set for him by his former self. And then, with twelve days left before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life. Young, beautiful - the only woman he can ever remember meeting. As the hour draws near, Robbie is forced to confront the fact that his past is very different from how he had imagined it. And when Julie reveals her own terrible secret, he must find a way to come to terms with the truth about himself.
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"Would you have the courage to let yourself fall?" -- Cover.

"Read this now. Right now. Don't even think of going near that door. Not until you know what's going on. Your name is Robert Penfold. Age 31. The apartment you're standing in is your home." Every 179 days, Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter explaining it. The disorientation. The fear. The bizarre circumstances imposed by the rare neurological condition he lives with. To survive the forgetting - to cope with his recurring loss of identity - Robbie leads a solitary, regimented life. Lives alone. Speaks to no one if he can avoid it. Works to complete a strange herculean task set for him by his former self. And then, with twelve days left before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life. Young, beautiful - the only woman he can ever remember meeting. As the hour draws near, Robbie is forced to confront the fact that his past is very different from how he had imagined it. And when Julie reveals her own terrible secret, he must find a way to come to terms with the truth about himself.

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