One twin vanished. One twin reappeared…

‘A fantastic debut – unpredictable, tense and absorbing’ -- ROSE CARLYLE, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl in the Mirror

‘Not just a first-rate thriller but a fascinating dive into questions of identity and who we choose to hold dear … Barker-White is a major new voice in psychological thrillers’ – MINDY MEJIA, bestselling author of Everything You Want Me to Be and To Catch a Storm

Lucy is profoundly relieved when her daughter Eden wakes up in hospital. Eden almost drowned in a mysterious accident at the lake near their home, but now that she’s safe, Lucy has a second chance at being a good mother – the mother she should have always been. Lucy’s unresolved grief for Eden’s twin – who was lost during the pregnancy, fourteen years ago – has put strain on her relationship with Eden for far too long.

But then Eden tells her that Eden isn’t her name. That her name is Eli – the name Lucy had reserved for the unborn, ‘vanished’ twin. Could it be that all this time, Lucy’s grief has been misplaced? Eden, it seems, is the twin who’s truly disappeared…

A traffic-stoppingly gripping and original book-club thriller about Vanishing Twin Syndrome and motherhood, My Name Was Eden is the perfect read for fans of The Push, Behind Her Eyes and We Need to Talk about Kevin.