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The Amazing Story of a Woman Who Awoke from a Coma to a Life She Couldn’t Remember

By: Marcy Gregg

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

When Marcy Gregg awoke from a coma, 13 years had vanished from her memory.

She was 30 years old; she thought she was still 17. She didn’t recognize the man who introduced himself as her husband. She stared at pictures of the three children they said were hers, trying desperately to remember them, but her mind was blank.

Terrified and confused, Marcy did the only thing she could think of: she faked it. She told the doctors she was starting to remember and bluffed her way through visits from friends and family. Against all odds, it worked: she was released to a home, family, and life she should have known intimately―but seemed to be a stranger’s. How was she going to pull off the biggest acting challenge imaginable―and would her memories ever return?

Ghost Boy meets What Alice Forgot in this amazing true story of a woman who lost herself and tried to fight her way back on her own―but who found unexpected beauty in hope, faith, and second chances.

©2022 Marcy Gregg (P)2022 Tyndale House Publishers

Beyond encouraging

Such a life-giving testimony! Somehow I relate, even though I’ve never slipped into or out of a coma. So tangible. Thank you, Marcy Gregg, for being vulnerable and allowing Christ to shine through you. So grateful!

Embracing life

This book really made you put life into perspective. Embracing your family, your friends, because you truly do not know what every minute of life holds for you. And this is woman’s strength. Her faith is remarkable. Her story, it made me to continue to cling to my faith and push forward to life, because with God all things are possible.

Boring, poor narration

As another reviewer mentioned, it is mostly about her relationship with God. Other than that other review, what I had read about this book did not say this was so faith-based. She has many conversations that start out "Lord...." There are many, many quotes from the bible, especially in the last half. I don't see this as a bad thing, it's just not the story I was expecting. The part where she describes waking up in the hospital and what she goes through there is interesting. The rest is not. Details about boring stuff. Even corny at times. It's like she used a thesaurus so she could use (or overuse) many varied adjectives.

This narrator is one of the worst I've heard. When I first listened, she sounded so much like some kind of automated or AI voice that I almost stopped very early on. I decided to give it more time and she improved slightly as the book went on.

I had seen the author on a talk show years ago and she was interesting and a good speaker, but the book doesn't reflect this at all. She probably would have been a better narrator. I must say, her husband is totally a gem for what he did for her during and after he coma. What a great guy!

I think this book should be re-branded to say it's about a woman who overcomes adversity through her relationship with God. That would attract more of an appropriate audience.

Don’t recommend

Audible book voice grating. This “book” is more for the author herself and her god. I feel essentially author is someone who knows someone in the biz to make mention of it to make money. summary of story is click bait. The words between the pages boring, and to pray to god for some silly little things with all the help she had, tells me she has no idea what hard is.