The Library of Traumatic Memory

<p><b>The first literary science fiction novel from Neil Jordan, visionary director of <i>The Company of Wolves </i>and <i>Interview with the Vampire</i></b><br><br>In a windswept corner of a forgotten peninsula, love and loss echo through the halls of a mansion built on secrets. Here memory is currency of the future, and the past refuses to stay buried.<br><br>In the year 2084, Christian Cartwright, a quiet librarian at the enigmatic Huxley Institute, spends his days archiving the world’s most painful memories in the Library of Traumatic Memory. <br><br>But when his lover Isolde dies in a mysterious car crash, Christian secretly resurrects her as a digital consciousness — an act of grief, obsession, and defiance.<br><br>As Christian navigates a world where memories can be edited, dreams harvested, and the dead made to speak, he uncovers a deeper conspiracy buried in the Institute’s foundations — one that stretches back centuries to his 18th-century ancestor Montagu Cartwright, the architect of the Huxley Mansion.<br><br>Montagu’s obsidian mirror and copper model may hold the key to a reality where architecture shapes fate and time loops back on itself.<br><br>Blending gothic mystery, speculative science, and philosophical depth, <i>The Library of Traumatic Memory</i> is a haunting meditation on love, loss, and the ethics of memory. <br><br><b>As the past and future collide, Christian must decide what it means to remember — and what it costs to forget.</b></p>