A young girl who claims to remember a past life draws a psychologist into a decades-old mystery in a haunting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver. Kate Willis, consultant for the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, is tasked with interviewing six-year-old Henley Haskell about the girl's alleged past-life recollections. The evaluation also marks a return for Kate to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and to troubling recollections of her own. Here, twenty-four years ago, Kate's friend Becca McGuire vanished from her bunk at a now-shuttered summer camp and was never seen again--presumably drowned in Lake Sauquamet. But the mystery of her disappearance is only deepening. Because Henley's memories of her "other life" are ones that could only belong to Becca. For Kate, Henley's recurring, suffocating nightmares, and her disturbing illustrations of places she has never been, seem to spell out the unbelievable. Somewhere, somehow, the truth about what really happened to Becca is locked inside this little girl. As Henley's uncanny memories surface, so do old secrets--each one drawing Kate inexorably back to that terrible long-ago summer by the lake.

ローレン・オリバーが描く本作は、輪廻転生という神秘を鍵に、人間の奥底に眠る罪悪感と喪失を暴き出す心理サスペンスの傑作です。少女の「前世」の記憶が封印された過去を呼び覚ます構成は圧巻で、現実と幻想の境界を彷徨うような濃密な焦燥感に包まれます。単なる謎解きを超え、癒えない傷を抱えた魂が救済を求める姿が、詩的な筆致で鮮烈に描かれています。 映像化作品では湖畔の恐怖が視覚的に際立ちますが、原作には「内面の震え」を緻密に追体験できる唯一無二の深みがあります。テキスト特有の微細な心理描写は、映像版の緊迫感と合わさることで多層的な輝きを放ちます。両メディアが共鳴し、真実の重みを倍増させる至高の物語体験を、ぜひその手で確かめてください。