You Must Remember This: A Novel

The guests include Delphine, Miriam’s granddaughter, a frightened and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, and Miriam’s live-in aide, Adam, whom Delphine has been secretly dating.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

You Must Remember This is a captivating Gothic mystery by Kat Rosenfield, the acclaimed author of No One Will Miss Her. Set on Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Caravasios ventures onto the icy surface of her seaside estate on Maine's Mount Desert Island. In her younger days, she would sneak out on winter nights to meet her lover, traversing the frozen expanse to their secret rendezvous spot. Although she remembers the route, she is unaware of the year. Miriam, plagued by dementia, fails to hear the crack of thin ice until it's too late. Was it an accident, suicide, or something even more sinister?

With a plethora of suspects, Miriam's fractured and complex family has gathered at their Bar Harbor mansion to celebrate what was expected to be the matriarch's final Christmas. Among the guests are Delphine, Miriam's granddaughter, a fearful and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, and Miriam's live-in aide, Adam, whom Delphine has been secretly dating. Also present are Miriam's former housekeeper, Shelly Dyer, who left the family's employment years ago under mysterious circumstances, and Miriam's children: Theodora, who sacrificed everything to become the caretaker; Diana, who appears eager to inherit her share of the estate; and Richard, whose longstanding grudge against his mother has transformed into joyful contempt as she deteriorates.

However, it is Delphine who faces the most intense scrutiny when they learn the shocking news that Miriam will disinherit her children, leaving her granddaughter with almost everything. As tensions escalate, Delphine is emboldened to begin asking questions.

Weight: 454g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063207394