At the time, Amber went by her middle name, Taylor. The diary, apparently, was kept by Claire, who is not actually her sister but a friend Amber first met when she was 10. Edward now works as a low-level orderly at a hospital near Amber and Paul’s home and blames Amber for everything, although Amber finds out only now that her sister actually filed the complaint.Īs Amber struggles to work through the days leading up to the accident, the reader is given diary entries from 1991, nearly 20 years earlier. Unknown to her, he is still seething over Amber’s accusations of unwanted advances while they were dating years earlier when Edward was a promising med student, accusations that cost Edward any chance at a medical career. In addition to the stress at work, Amber reconnects with an ex-boyfriend, Edward Clarke, whom she meets by chance. The station quickly moves to terminate the woman.

Amber arranges for Madeline to share her true feelings about one of the station’s established charity funds by deliberately leaving the woman’s mic on during a live radio show. Determined to keep her job, Amber, with Jo, her only friend at the studio, hatches a plan to get Madeline fired. Her association with the morning radio show is growing tenuous-she is in nearly constant friction with the show’s principal host, Madeline Frost, and she is told confidentially to make nice or face termination. She had hoped when she found out she was pregnant a few days before Christmas that they might begin to repair their marriage.Īmber, helpless in bed, thinks back to what she remembers about the days leading up to the Christmas afternoon accident. The two have grown estranged since the publication of Paul’s first book, and Amber admits she suspects he might be involved romantically with her sister. She determines the police suspect Paul of having something to do with the accident. Aware but unable to communicate, Amber struggles to gather details about the car accident that nearly killed her from fragments of bedside conversations between nurses and her husband, Paul, a successful novelist, and her sister, Claire. Amber Reynolds, a 30-something assistant host for a highly rated morning show on BBC radio, is in a coma in a hospital. It is Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, a national holiday in England.

This guide will summarize the chapters by page ranges and follow each storyline separately. Each chapter is headed by the year, date, day, and time. The novel’s chapters move between events that happened to Amber Reynolds the week leading up to a car accident in late December 2016 the weeks after the accident, going to spring 2017 and, through diary entries, events that happened to another character, Claire, when she was 10. This guide follows the 2018 First Edition Flatiron Paperback edition and summarizes scenes of rape, sexual abuse, and drug use.

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