My Bermuda Namesakes

We all know how life can throw us a curve ball and can change in the blink of an eye. For graphic designer, Josie James - or JJ as she prefers to be known - the change is road accident which leaves her with virtually no short term memory. She needs to keep a detailed diary just to recall what she did the previous day.If this isn't enough to contend with, she then finds herself living far from home and accused of a crime that she didn't commit. Yet all the forensic evidence, including CCTV, says 'guilty'. How the hell did she get into this mess? The beautiful sub tropical island of Bermuda is where JJ has chosen to stay for recuperation and treatment. She soon discovers that there are two other Josie James' - her namesakes - living on the island and finds herself at the centre of their lives. But her new found happiness turns into a nightmare as JJ is placed firmly at the scene of a serious crime. Will Graham Tucker - the charismatic criminal lawyer and JJ's new love - be able to help her out of this nightmare in paradise? Can her brain specialist, the talented Dr Silver, unearth some lost short term memories that could prove her innocence? And what about those new namesake buddies? 'My Bermuda Namesakes' is a twist and turn story with a central question at its heart. When your short term memory is shot to pieces - just where does the truth lie?

Maggie Fogarty is a Royal Television Society award winning television producer and journalist, making TV programmes for all the major UK broadcasters. She has also written extensively on health and social affairs for a number of national newspapers and magazines. In April 2011 her story ’Namesakes’ was a finalist in the Artists and Writers/WAYB short story competition. The novel ’My Bermuda Namesakes’ grew out of the original short story. It was written during a year long stay in Bermuda where Maggie’s partner, Paul, was working as a digital forensics consultant. During her time on the island, Maggie wrote a regular guest column for the Bermuda Sun newspaper. The couple now live in Cornwall in the South West of England. Before moving there, they lived on the outskirts of Birmingham, in the UK English Midlands, where Maggie was born and grew up.