A Week at Meredith’s by Kate Brazier

<span;>‘Fooling other people is duplicity; fooling yourself is stupidity.’

<span;>In 1997, sixteen-year-old Tana Davis imagined a bright future for herself; she would finish school, become a lawyer, and generally swish her way through life being brilliant. But a chance encounter with a stranger on a Cornish beach pushed Tana’s life onto a different path.

<span;>Fast forward to 2010, and Tana awakes in a French hospital, with limited memories about what happened to put her there. Images flicker through her head: a ten-car pile-up, a terrorist attack, a brutal mugging. A train wreck or a plane crash. Anything could have happened. But what did? And where are her children?

<span;>Forced to examine her life to this point, Tana must admit some brutal truths about herself, her family and her relationships.

<span;>Based loosely on the twelve-step recovery programme, Tana’s story confronts some of the most fundamental issues that we all face – how we create meaning in our life, how perceptions influence the way we conduct ourselves, and how relationships can be tested.