I queried a handful of my peers and while they agreed the book looked promising, no one had read it and I wasn’t entirely convinced I wanted to be the first to plunge into a debut. Truth is, I’d not heard of this piece before spotting the striking yellow cover at the Historical Novel Society Conference bookstore and was entirely unfamiliar with the author. I mean no offense, but when push comes to shove I’m a bit of a penny pincher and rarely buy books blindly. My purchase of Gwendolyn Womack’s The Memory Painter was something of a surprise. But a deadly enemy watches their every move, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that the past stays buried.
Together, Bryan and Linz start to discern a pattern. She tracks down the elusive artist, and their meeting triggers Bryan's most powerful dream yet: visions of a team of scientists who, on the verge of discovering a cure for Alzheimer's, died in a lab explosion decades ago.Īs Bryan becomes obsessed with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the scientists' deaths, his dreams begin to reveal what happened at the lab, as well as a deeper mystery that may lead all the way to ancient Egypt.
Linz Jacobs is a brilliant neurogeneticist, absorbed in decoding the genes that help the brain make memories, until she is confronted with an exact rendering of a recurring nightmare at one of Bryan's shows. All his life, he has wondered if his dreams are recollections, if he is re-experiencing other people's lives. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills.like the ability to speak obscure languages and an inexplicable genius for chess.
But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.īryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. Two lovers who have traveled across time.
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