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MYSTERY thriller novel The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker has hit the shelves.
The story follows Jane, a young mother who experiences a series of strange episodes following the birth of her first child, including amnesia, premonitions and hallucinations.
As her psychiatrist struggles to solve the mystery of what is happening in her mind, Jane suddenly goes missing, and is found a day later unconscious in a park, waking up without any memory of what happened to her.
American author Karen earned her degrees in the English language and creative writing from California University in Los Angeles. After completing her undergraduate degree, she worked as a journalist for a newspaper in San Diego.
She completed her master’s degree at Columbia University, and is currently an assistant professor in the creative writing department at Oregon University.
The upcoming novel is her third published work.
Jane’s writing stands out for always combining the real world with fantastic elements and events.
“I really enjoy spending time as a writer and a reader and just as a human being in those spaces between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the everyday and the unlikely,” Karen said in an interview.
“Even in our everyday reality, I enjoy that. I love reading about realms of science where there’s still a lot of mystery: quantum physics and distant planets. Once you start reading about these elements of reality that we don’t totally understand, it opens up that imaginative space that a lot of people love to spend time in,” she added.
