Once upon a Lie

A Novel

De: Rebecca Taylor

Narrado por: Libby McKnight

Mia Strauss is trying to be a good mother. She’s worked hard to build a stable life since losing her memory at 18 when an assailant pushed her from the third-story landing of her parents’ gold coast mansion. But lately, Mia is losing control and feels she’s being watched wherever she goes. She is taking more and more of her prescription drugs to quiet the rising panic and anxiety. But when her husband, Alexander, comes home to find her face down on their living room floor, she’s at risk of losing her girls.

Alexander Strauss, neuropsychologist and professor at Columbia University, can no longer trust his wife. Her behavior and moods have grown evermore erratic. She takes plenty of medication but doesn’t make any progress. She has become a danger to herself and their children. It is believed that Mia will never be able to remember, but Alexander has other ideas.

Based on her recent brain images, Alexander is confident Mia’s continued amnesia is psychological. She doesn’t want to remember. He gives her an ultimatum: Either she gets real help or he’ll leave her and take the girls.

Desperate to save her marriage and keep her family, Mia signs up for a therapy she’s never tried—an experimental treatment that hypothesizes psilocybin may help traumatized patients process and recover their forgotten lives. But as Mia makes progress and her history begins to take shape, it becomes apparent that those closest to Mia never want her to remember what happened that night. And they’ll do whatever it takes to stop the truth from being uncovered.

©2023 Rebecca Taylor (P)2023 Rebecca Taylor

love all her books

well written and narrated..twisty story kept me wanting more..always look forward to more from this author

Fabulous!

The story is gripping. Add in the fact that Libby McKnight is one of the very best narrators we have ever heard and we were up all night listening!

who did what

This book was so easy to listen to. I would love to see how a movie would work.

the details of characters

Really well played out story. The characters were interesting. some taxi feels like it's moving too fast but all in all it was a good listen. One other thing, I did not like that the narrator said magna Carter instead of magna Carta.

Very long winded

I never stop a book but this made me stop Too much going on what happened ?