Remembering Me

I quite enjoyed Remembering Me by Diane Chamberlain. It was first published in 1999 and this is the 2010 edition. It is a mysterious and intriguing story which has at its heart, the maltreatment of the mentally ill in the 1960s. Laura Brandon's father begs her on his death bed to look after an elderly woman in a nursing home. She has no clue as to the connection this woman has with her father. Then Laura's husband commits suicide, severely traumatising Laura's five year old daughter who was in the house at the time. Laura visits the old woman, Sarah, and becomes caught up in the story of her life as a psychiatric nurse in the 1960s and the maltreatment of patients in the hospital where she worked. The mystery of Sarah's relationship with Laura's father and others is finally revealed and surprises those involved - far fetched? Maybe, but a good story, real page-turner! 4/5