James Padew lives happily and peacefully in Amsterdam. One day he breaks his leg and is forced to sit at home for some time because of the cast. These days ultimately change his entire life. James becomes obsessed with his own past - more precisely, three years from the past, about which he remembers absolutely nothing. Returning to the city where he spent these three years, James settles in his old house and accidentally finds a nineteenth-century manuscript in a cache. The tragic story told in it strangely echoes relatively recent events. Deceptive glimpses of lost memories, reality and fiction, fate and chance, are woven into a tight tangle of contradictions that seem impossible to untangle... Amnesia is a gripping novel from one of Britain's most promising young authors.