Call Me Evie
Seventeen-year-old Kate has been living for two weeks against her will in an isolated cabin in a remote beach town, far from her home in Melbourne. The man who brought her there calls her "Evie" and insists he is protecting her — that back home she did something so terrible he had no choice but to take her away. The problem is that Kate can't remember the night in question at all.
The pieces of her old life that do surface seem ordinary, even happy: close friends, a comfortable house, a devoted boyfriend. But the man's account of what she supposedly did never quite lines up, and as her fractured memories slowly return, Kate can't tell whether he is her protector or her jailer — or whether the danger lies in what she herself has done.
Told in taut "before" and "after" strands through a deeply unreliable narrator, J.P. Pomare's award-winning debut is a claustrophobic psychological thriller about memory, identity, and the lies we tell even ourselves.
A seventeen-year-old girl from Melbourne who is taken to a remote cabin under the alias Evie, struggling with fractured memories of a terrible event.
A seventeen-year-old held in a remote cabin, unable to remember the night she is told she caused a catastrophe.
The mysterious man (referred to as Bill in some editions) who holds Kate captive in a remote beach town, claiming he is protecting her from her own past.
Kate's captor and claimed protector, whose account of events never quite holds together.
Kate's boyfriend from her life back in Melbourne, who appears in her fragmented memories of the time before her abduction.