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” In my book, these twins have totally different lifestyles. The younger sister, Lexi, lives a very busy life in New York, where she’s an editor in a very big publishing house. The older sister, Amelia, lives in Somerset, in an old fisherman’s cottage by the beach, and works as an accountant. When a tragedy occurs and Amelia is found unconscious on the beach in the middle of the night, she is miraculously revived by a couple of doctors who happen to be passing on their way to a fishing trip. Lexi gets on a plane and comes back with the intention of nursing her sister back to health. When Amelia wakes up, all becomes really confusing because she has a whole load of false memories. She is calling for a husband that nobody has ever heard of—he doesn’t exist—and has a whole back story and history of memories with him that are completely false. It was interesting investigating this false memory phenomenon, which can occur after certain circumstances. It would normally fade. There’s nothing that will make the memories go away apart from the person realizing themselves that what they’re saying perhaps doesn’t make complete sense. You’re told not to challenge them. Don’t say, ‘Well, that’s rubbish!’ It would be the same with someone who has Alzheimer’s. You don’t become confrontational and cause an argument about somebody’s memory, or lack thereof. Amelia takes these memories to another level. In a bid to help her sister, Lexi goes down a route that is questionable. A lot of people say, ‘Well, that is surely going to end in disaster!’ But she decides to help in the only way she can because she feels so utterly helpless watching her sister struggle. In so doing, she meets a doppelgänger of how Amelia has described her husband, only to form an attachment with him that can go nowhere.” Read more...
