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Eleanor Barker-White

Biography

Eleanor Barker-White

Eleanor Barker-White holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Janklow and Nesbit Prize, and has had a number of short stories published in Best of British and The People’s Friend magazines. She has previously worked with children and families in family courts, His Majesty’s Prison service and children’s charities, and remains fascinated by the endless capacity for human resilience. She was born and raised in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, but now lives in Wiltshire with her husband and four children. MY NAME WAS EDEN is her first novel.

Eleanor Barker-White

Books by Eleanor Barker-White

My Name Was Eden
by Eleanor Barker-White - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

When her daughter Eden came home from the hospital, Lucy was profoundly relieved. Eden had survived a drowning incident and had no apparent brain damage or serious injuries. Lucy fervently welcomed having a second chance at being the good mother she should have been before her teenager’s accident. Until Eden tells her that Eden isn’t her name. Until she starts calling herself Eli. The name Lucy had reserved for Eden’s unborn twin. Don’t worry, says the doctor. Eden is completely fine, says her husband. Of course I’m fine, Eden says, with that strange new smile of hers. I didn’t die. I’m here. But Lucy knows something is very wrong with Eden. She’s not her maddening, complicated teenage girl anymore --- this even-tempered, steady-eyed child is someone else entirely. Eden, it seems, is the twin who disappeared.