The Memory Chamber

By: Holly Cave

Narrated by: Imogen Church

The perfect afterlife or a never-ending nightmare?

Isobel has it all: a steady relationship, the immaculate home and her dream job. Life, and even death, is completely under her control. For Isobel's generation death no longer means oblivion, thanks to firms like her employer, Oakley Associates. Isobel is their top Heaven Architect, crafting perfect afterlives for her clients: artificial paradises of the mind built from the memories they treasure most.

Then Isobel meets handsome client Jarek. Her disciplined life gives way to something passionate and extreme, and Isobel jeopardises everything to embark on an affair with a terminally ill - and married - man. When Jarek posthumously becomes the prime suspect in a murder that took place just before his death, Isobel is forced to prove his innocence.

Jarek's afterlife faces termination if the real culprit cannot be found. But as Isobel stumbles upon the darker side of the work she so passionately believes in, she can trust no-one with what she finds.

Set in the near-future, this thrilling and original story vaults the listener into a world that is terrifyingly close to our own, where we can avoid everything we fear - even death itself. But can we ever escape the truth?

©2017 Holly Cave (P)2017 Audible, Ltd

Part Mystery, part sci-fi, part romance all good

First of all, I love the narration. Beautifully preformed with just the right emotional connection to immediately draw you into the story. I tend to shy away from sci-fi, for fear of it getting lost into a complex of bits and pieces that I feel inexperienced enough to make any semblance of a story lost on me. But this was written in such a way that it is easy to follow and understand and quite compelling. And I do appreciate a good "who done it" mystery, which this definitely has as well.
Personally, I was always disappointed when real life called my attention away from the story. Well done, all around.

Too much emotional detail

This ought to be a simple plot, But the protagonist is lost in a muddle of irrelevant detail and “feelings”. It makes the story tedious.