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Extract: Always on My Mind by Carys Green

The Other You

‘It will be all right,’ Nellie assured her with startling confidence. 
‘I’m here to make things better. You’ll see.’ 
 'Gripping and haunting' Tess MackeyElena and Stu are barely holding it together. Their newborn screams through the night, their nerves are frayed, and their marriage is hanging by a thread.Then comes More You: a company offering an impossible solution — a clone. For a price, they can have another Elena. One who is fresh. Alert.At first, it feels like salvation. The clone is calm, capable, perfect. But soon she starts to pick up Elena’s habits. Her voice. Her smile. And in the quiet hours of the night, something in the house begins to shift.When the cracks finally split wide open, Elena is forced to confront a terrifying question: if someone takes your place, what happens to you? 
 
'Clever and thought provoking...profoundly chilling' Ajay Chowdhury

Really clever and thought provoking as well as being profoundly chilling with beautifully drawn characters

How would you react to sharing your home with your clone - would you embrace yourself and live harmoniously, or fight the claim your clone stakes on your life? Carys Green challenges readers with this question in another gripping and haunting story that will linger long after reading

Gripping and deeply unsettling, blurring the lines of identity and belonging. The Other You confronts human vulnerabilities in a way that leaves you questioning just how far ethical and moral boundaries can be

Carys Green is a thriller writer based in Shropshire, where she lives with her husband and daughter. When she’s not writing she can often be found indulging two of her greatest passions - either walking round the local woodland or catching up on all things Disney related.

‘It will be all right,’ Nellie assured her with startling confidence. 
‘I’m here to make things better. You’ll see.’'How would you react to sharing your home with your clone?... Gripping and haunting' Tess MackeyElena and Stu are barely holding it together. Their newborn screams through the night, their nerves are frayed, and their marriage is hanging by a thread.Then comes More You: a company offering an impossible solution — a clone. For a price, they can have another Elena. One who is fresh. Alert.At first, it feels like salvation. The clone is calm, capable, perfect. But soon she starts to pick up Elena’s habits. Her voice. Her smile. And in the quiet hours of the night, something in the house begins to shift.When the cracks finally split wide open, Elena is forced to confront a terrifying question: if someone takes your place, what happens to you? 
 
'Clever and thought provoking...profoundly chilling' Ajay Chowdhury

Carys Green

Original and compelling to the extreme - I raced through it

Debbie Howells, author of THE BONES OF YOU

‘Fantastic … the tension was exquisite ... I can’t remember feeling this on edge. It takes real skill to extract that level of emotional reaction from a reader ... Carys Green has pulled it off superbly’

Natalie Chandler, bestselling author of BELIEVE ME NOT

Tapping into my existing paranoia about where technology is headed, Green took my fears of inevitable AI intrusion, fused them with romantic toxicity and thereby eradicated any possibility of sleep. Like a OneMind chip, Always on my Mind got under my skin and refused to let me rest until the story’s end! Utterly chilling.

[An] original, gripping thriller… A book to keep you up all night

You can hear his every thought. But he can hear yours too... 
 
When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other’s thoughts. However, she’s eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can’t give him what he really wants, she agrees to take this step towards the ultimate intimacy. 
 
And at first things are great. Anna feels closer to her husband, and the novelty of communicating mind to mind is a thrill. But then she develops a strange side effect and begins having dreams that aren’t dreams, but memories. Memories that aren’t hers. And if Anna is now seeing Elijah’s memories, what if he can see hers? Will he discover what she's kept buried in her past? 
 
Desperate to keep the truth from her husband, Anna's mind becomes a prison she can't escape. How long can she keep the traitorous thoughts at bay before she drives herself mad? 
 
A clever exploration of toxic relationships, power imbalances, and privacy from an exciting new voice in the high-concept thriller space.

Carys Green

Praise for Always on My Mind

Original and compelling to the extreme - I raced through it

‘Fantastic … the tension was exquisite ... I can’t remember feeling this on edge. It takes real skill to extract that level of emotional reaction from a reader ... Carys Green has pulled it off superbly’

Tapping into my existing paranoia about where technology is headed, Green took my fears of inevitable AI intrusion, fused them with romantic toxicity and thereby eradicated any possibility of sleep. Like a On ...

Original and compelling to the extreme - I raced through it

‘Fantastic … the tension was exquisite ... I can’t remember feeling this on edge. It takes real skill to extract that level of emotional reaction from a reader ... Carys Green has pulled it off superbly’

Tapping into my existing paranoia about where technology is headed, Green took my fears of inevitable AI intrusion, fused them with romantic toxicity and thereby eradicated any possibility of sleep. Like a On ...

Original and compelling to the extreme - I raced through it

‘Fantastic … the tension was exquisite ... I can’t remember feeling this on edge. It takes real skill to extract that level of emotional reaction from a reader ... Carys Green has pulled it off superbly’

Tapping into my existing paranoia about where technology is headed, Green took my fears of inevitable AI intrusion, fused them with romantic toxicity and thereby eradicated any possibility of sleep. Like a On ...

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