A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the bestselling author. How can you know someone you’ve never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It’s the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can’t figure out why.

Characters, setting, plot, conflict, point of view, and theme are six key elements for writing fiction.

Characters are the people, animals, or aliens in the story. Readers come to know the characters through what they say, what they think, and how they act.

It is more structured, follows proper grammatical pattern, and correct mechanics.

By viewing the world from a point of view that is not your own, you become more empathetic.

Reading is a way to escape your own life, and can take you to faraway lands, other times, and put you in other people's shoes.