02507cam a2200337 i 4500 296135530 TxAuBib 20170510120000.0 161003s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016044298 9781616956028 161695602X DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda eng dan Friis, Agnete. What my body remembers [BOOK] / Agnete Friis ; translated from the Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen. Blitz. New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2017. 298 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From New York Times bestselling author Agnete Friis comes the chilling story of a young mother who will do whatever it takes to protect her son. Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was seven years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night or her childhood before it--but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for hours--sometimes days--at a time and leave her physically and psychically drained. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Driven by desperation, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born. Her grandmother's abandoned house is in grave disrepair, but she can live there for free until she can figure out how to convince social services that despite everything, she is the best parent for her child. But being back in thesmall town forces Ella to confront the demons of her childhood--the monsters her memory has tried so hard to obscure. What really happened that night her mother died? Was her grandmother right--was Ella's father unjustly convicted? What other secrets wereher parents hiding from each other? If Ella can start to remember, maybe her scars will begin to heal--or maybe the truth will put her in even greater danger"-- Provided by publisher. 20170510. Murder Denmark Fiction. Post-traumatic stress disorder Patients Fiction. Mothers and sons Fiction. Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction. Van Rooyen, Lindy Falk.