HQ All Is Not Forgotten: The bestselling gripping thriller you’ll never forget, Crime & Thriller, Paperback, Wendy Walker
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Author: Read and Reviewed
Rating: 5
Review: All is Not Forgotten shines a merciless spotlight on the repercussions and ripple effects following the harrowing rape of fifteen-year-old Jenny Kramer in the affluent town of Fairview, suburban Connecticut. At times it is excruciating uncomfortable to read and will turn readers stomach, but is is always enlightening and extremely eloquently written. The subject matter is not easily addressed, but Wendy Walker has prepared herself exquisitely through thorough research and manages to provide her readers with a coherent knowledge of erasing memories medically through a controversial medical process first used on wounded soldiers to reduce PTSD and more recently, on survivors on violent assaults. The night of a party, largely attended by the tenth-grade students of Fairview High School was supposed to be the best night of Jenny Kramer's life but one glimpse of a boy who invited her getting cosy with another girl drives her to vodka and leaves her fleeing the party and venturing into the woods behind the house. It is in these woods with the music from the house audible and the lights blazing that she is subject to an hour long rape at the hands of a perpetrator who leaves no traces, having shaved his body, used a condom and kept his face covered. It is only after she gets to hospital that the carving on her lower back is noticed. Father, Tom is reduced to a blubbering wreck, intent on vengeance, angry at his failure to protect his daughter and obsessed with identifying the perpetrator. Mother, Charlotte fears how the incident will affect Jenny's schooling and social standing. Alerted to a controversial treatment to relieve Jenny of her memories of the night which must be actioned in the immediate aftermath by 'erasing' them, Charlotte sanctions the treatment, only for it to backfire with the upshot being a nearly successful suicide attempt on the part of Jenny. After all, while the mind can forget, the body is less able to and the carving on Jenny's back - an inch long scar which required seventeen stitches - is a trigger point for her emotions, but her lack of memory but knowledge of the incident leaves her chasing the ghosts that roam the corridors of her mind. The odious and supercilious narrator, a psychiatrist by the name of Dr Alan Forrester, first has contact with the Kramer family one-year on from the rape and following the suicide attempt which is generally agreed to be an unfortunate upshot from Jenny's controversial memory erasion treatment. Forrester's narrative feeds into what the reader makes of the events, but even before the investigation veered closer to his family, I found his creepy and clinical dissection of matters unsettling. His dispassion, even when commenting on his own marriage and his invested motives in treating Jenny seems false. His musings are also prone to flying off at seemingly random tangents, and much of his narrative is superfluous to Jenny's story and more akin to bragging and showcasing his credentials. All in all, he is difficult character to respect or like. Forrester's analysis of Jenny's situation derives testimony from not only her, but also parents, Charlotte and Tom, and the workmanlike Detective Parsons, focused on nailing an 'outsider' not resident in Fairview and a feather in his cap. Along with memory prompts from the night of the rape - including the body spray and make-up that Jenny wore, duplicate clothes, the playlist that pulsated from the house and memories, testimony from the couple who found Jenny after her nightmare is fascinating. The tumultuous emotions and baggage of parents, Charlotte and Tom, from their own childhoods and place within the family is explored as Alan Forrester seeks to reawaken Jenny's recall without the power of suggestion corrupting the veracity of her memories. When the investigation threatens to veer rather too close to the family unit of Forrester and his son, also a party guest, his questionable actions have the power to derail a treatment program that is benefitting his patient. Wendy Walker's unflinching exploration of the Jenny's nightmare and the collateral damage on her family and on the smugly suburban town where outsiders are noticed is brilliantly examined. The introduction of another patient that Dr Forrester has been worked with, wounded military combatant Sean Logan and I was concerned that Walker was bringing a complication into the works that threatened to upset the focus on Jenny's story. However, Logan's story proves integral to Jenny's and despite the diversions his character proved critical. I spent the second half of the novel and eventual denouement in a state of high anxiety, coiled tighter than a spring and with a tension headache resounding in my head due to the palpable suspense that Wendy Walker evoked. At times this novel is tough-going given its truly grim subject and density of the scientific facts behind the theories which may frighten some readers off, however is is never anything less than worthwhile. Some of the concepts relating to the filing of memories and their conditioning over time, altered slightly each time they are brought to the surface, are fascinating. Although in the acknowledgements, Wendy Walker divulges that the treatment in the novel does not currently exist in its entirety, she indicates that it continues to remain at the forefront of emerging research, and it is surely only a matter of time before its use becomes with more widely known. Regardless of Dr Forrester's adherence to the Hippocratic Oath, his impartiality and his questionable interferences into his patients harrowing experiences, I never lost sight of the logic behind the treatment used. The aim of Dr Forrester's treatment was never forgiveness on the part of Jenny but concerned with her ability to understand and to place what happened into a context that made her life possible to live. Absorbing until the very end, an unexpected conclusion leaves readers to ponder the enormous implications. Review written by Rachel Hall (@hallrachel)
Author: Samantha D.
Rating: 3
Review: Was really looking forward to this book . In the first few chapters i found my mind wandering . As it went on i really wanted to know who the rapist was . there's so much dialogue in it you really have to concentrate . The family aspect was great throughout as to how they reacted with t he rape of their child and who had done it . It built.The suspense up.really well but I thought the end when I found out who the rapist was , was a bit disappointing cos the rapist had only been mentioned in a couple of chapters . Once we knew who.It was he family went back to normal as tho nothing had ever happened which I found strange x
