The Memory Cycle · Book I of the Pentalogy
BEFORE MEMORY
An invitation to remember what we have never forgotten.
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Aren receives souls at a place between lives. Six of them arrive almost at once – each carrying a different unfinished question.
What Aren learns about them leads him to a question he has never asked himself. A quiet novel about memory, belonging and the courage not to know everything.

Listen
The audiobook is on its way. Before Memory will be narrated by Gareth Clarke, who lives and records in South Africa – a collaboration across continents and time zones.
We're taking the time to get it right. Thank you for your patience. It won't be long. And then you can listen, too – soon...

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Behind the scenes of Before Memory: where the novel's questions come from – and why it deliberately leaves them open.
An essay on memory, consciousness and what we may carry within us before we can name it. With a look at the six souls and what each of them makes visible.

Readers' Voices
There is nothing better than hearing what a book set in motion in someone.
If you'd like to share your thoughts on Before Memory, write to me. I'd love to hear from you.

