Book description
Zoë Nielsen was just like any other ten-year-old walking to school,
not knowing that a chance encounter with Thurman Hayes would lead to
her abduction and imprisonment in a converted nuclear bunker, 4,000
miles away, beneath a remote ranch house in Arizona. Enslaved in her
underground tomb, deprived of food and light and water, the girl Zoe
once was steadily begins to disappear... But over time Thurman grows
tired of the rapidly maturing Zoë, and when he decides it is time to
get rid of her, Zoë must finally make her bid for freedom.
Forgetting Zoë is a moving, epic tale of courage, survival,
horror and loss, that explores how a bond of affection and intimacy
can develop between captive and captor.
Ray Robinson was born in North Yorkshire in 1971. After training
as a graphic designer he spent many years teaching in Eastern Europe
and Scandinavia. His prize-winning stories are widely published in
literary journals and he is the author of two novels, The Man
Without and Electricity, which was nominated for the James
Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Authors' Club Best First Novel
Award. He is a post-graduate of Lancaster University where he was
awarded a Ph. D. in Creative Writing in 2006 and is a Literary Mentor
for The Literary Consultancy. He lives in Manchester.
For more information visit the author's website: www.
themanwithout. com
