'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas sprinkled with shining island sentences:
tiny islets of remembrance glimmering in the night.' Memory isn't all that we think it is.
Each time we revisit even our most deeply ingrained memories they can soften and consolidate
distorted. Yet they also carry within them the blueprint of each person's unique style. From
episodic memories like shining islands in dark water and forgotten memories that underpin our
personalities to the memories authored by others that we carry within us Rowlands explores
our negotiations with the past and how memory makes us who we are. Drawing on the latest
neurological and psychological research and on a range of writers and thinkers The Book of
Memory is a mesmerising journey into how memories are made lost and remembered with important
consequences for how we understand ourselves.
