The invisible woman

(Lucy sits alone in a room, remembering. Most of her life has been taken up wilb a quest to find the mother who abandoned her when she was a few hours old. She considers this quest and other aspects of her life, stripping away the false memories and lies that have formed the foundation of her existence and realising the necessity to face up to final terrible truths.
This masterly first novel deals with the unreliability of memory, self-deception, alienation and waste)