Hugh Breakey_56

Robbie loses his memory every 179 days. As the calendar counts down to the next 'forgetting', he tries to protect his fragile identity before it's wiped clean once again. If you've seen 'Memento' or read S. J. Watson's 'Before I Go to Sleep', you know the territory is rich in twisty hypotheticals and should be fascinating. As Robbie wonders, "What was I doing except trying to shackle my future self, to bend him to my will?" It's an initially engaging conundrum (if a bit daft), but Breakey's take on the memory loss genre (sub-genre? niche?) is oddly dour for a supposed "compulsively readable love story", and a bit of a slog.