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|pages=384
|publisher=Headline Review
|date=April 2001
|isbn=0747268169
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On a whim Alice Raikes takes a train to Edinburgh to see her family. She has only been there a few minutes when she sees something which she finds so upsetting that she immediately boards the train back to Kings Cross. Within hours she is hit by a car in London traffic and is taken to hospital in a coma. Was this an accident or a suicide attempt? What was it that she saw in Edinburgh that so upset her? Her family gathers at her bedside as Alice drifts through varying levels of consciousness and her story is revealed in a series of flashbacks.
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|comment= I found this book hard to get into and understand at first also, but after the story developed it was hard to put down and well worth the read. I agree that you had to concentrate to follow the story, but the characters were all well developed and the story engrossing.
I don't agree that it is similar in style to Behind the Scenes at the Museum which is also a very good book but features more humour and it written in a different style.}}
