What happens after you lose your memory? Are you still same person? If you have no memory of your friend or the man you love,will you still like them as your friend and will you still fall in love with the same guy?
These are the questions that Gracie has when she has total amnesia after a car crash. In the hospital she accepts that the woman at her bedside,Scarlett, is her best friend. She refuses to see Blake who she is told is her fiancé.
Gracie doesn't know who she is or what she likes and she doesn't want to be told what to think, she wants to find out for herself. The only memory to come into her head is the names of flowers and how to grow them. When Gracie is told that her mother died a year ago and that Gracie was in the process of selling her house which has a flower farm attached to it Grace knows that she has to go there, back to where she grew up to find the answers she needs to remember her lost past.
I enjoyed this book and the journey Gracie goes on to make a new life for herself. There is a good twist which some people might see earlier than me and it fitted nicely into the story.
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Review: A book full of love, romance, hope and family. On discovering this book I have also found a new author I like. 

The plot had me hooked. I love a story where someone can completely reinvent themselves if they want to, with the added element that they have to leave behind loved once they just do not remember.

Gracie is suffering with sereve amnesia and has to decide whether to manager in her old life with no memories or to find herself and start a new life. Moving to her mother's flower farm and learning all about running it, Gracie has some big discussions to make. 

This is  well written story with some great twists which keep the pagers turning. I can't recommend this enough.

I wasn't too sure how the story was suppose to come to a close when I started reading it. The characters are believable even through my first instinct was "why won't she let people tell her about her past, maybe it would trigger some memories". Gracie choose to do it the hard way. Flowers are a major part of this book. I literally had to google most of them because I'm a bit of a garden novice. The end wasn't a total surprise, they were a few indications earlier in the book that pointed to the real identity of her very charming and hot neighbour.
Its the kind of book that leaves you with a warm and fussy feeling because love conquers all after all.

This is an amazing book and a new loved author from now on. Its a story i wouldn't normally read because its not the usually happy chic lit but it is.... and has all the love and romance we need to survive.... Simply amazing and this is a new author too so I'm totally happy...
Gracie... ends up in major car accident on her way to her best friends birthday party and wakes up not knowing anyone or anything... With all of her confusion regarding her fiancee who she is supposed to marry in the matter of weeks.... she is overwhelmed so goes back to summer hill, the house the tried to sell when her mother died. It is an old flower farm and these flowers are the only things she can relate to in life that she can remember. There is also the hot neighbour, maybe she remembers him too???? does she stay or does she go???
Read the book.... As a keen gardener i enjoyed hearing all about the flowers and although the story was almost predictable i really loved it.
I totally recommend it.
Thank you to net galley and the publishers.

Gracie is in a serious car accident on her way to her best friend’s birthday party. She wakes up and doesn’t remember her fiancée, her best friend, or even how to tie her shoelaces. Afraid and Unsure of what to do, she goes home to Summerhill, a house she has tried to sell after her mom died. There are some twists to the story, and it is beautifully told by the author. I recommend it.

Gracie is in a car accident and wakes up with total amnesia..... apparently she has a best friend Scarlett and a fiance Blake but she can't remember them at all.... how can she marry a man in a couple of months when she doesn't know who he is! Needing to get right away she goes to the old flower farm that her mother left to her when she died, and the flowers seem to be the only thing that she can relate to....... and maybe the hot next door neighbour! Does she go back to her old life or start a completely new one?

A lovely book and although fairly predictable I really enjoyed reading it, I loved the character of Gracie and her dilemma, and as a gardener enjoyed the flower farm

I received an ARC copy from netgalley for my honest review,  so thank you netgalley and publishers for offering me this book! ♡
The cover and title is what originally drew me to this book. It was a good story about amnesia, which you dont see too often in books. It wad predictable, but it was still good.
This was my first book by this author, It was okay. It was slow paced but it was alltogether an easy read. ♡ I give this book a
3.5 star rating!

Retrograde Amnesia a very difficult topic to write on, and to write it with sensitivity in a fictional tale, takes an amazing balance to make it both poignant and entertaining.

My first book by Vanessa Carnevale, and man, if this is the way she writes all her books, I am her forever fan. Gracie and her fiancé Blake are in a car accident where Gracie wakes up with total amnesia and does not even remember her mother, let alone her friends, fiancé, and workmates. Life becomes difficult for her, it is like seeing a child learn how to do things.

I loved the way the author has shown with a deep compassion, the helplessness, the confusion, the frustration and the anger at not remembering the simplest of things like how to cook eggs. Gracie then leaves the life she used to lead, her friends, work, fiancé and goes to the flower farm left to her by her mother, to relearn to discover herself and to accept a life which is now available to her, far away from what she used to live.

Vanessa’s story brings to the forefront the basic truth I had always believed in It takes a second for life to change. Gracie’s story made me feel the emotions that she goes through at every step of recovery, and that is the beauty of Vanessa’s writing.

I am a sucker for a book rich in emotions, and Vanessa is an awesome writer who put me through my paces, my heart wrenched at Gracie’s plight, my lips smiled when she did, and I soared with joy when she was happy. A total awesome read.

P.S I liked learning about flowers too, though I don’t have a green thumb.

Enjoyable read. I felt the story line was some bit predictable but that didn't stop me from enjoying it and it still prompted me to continue reading quickly to see if I had guessed right. Lovely story about fate and second chances!

I received this book "The Memories of Us" from Netgalley for my honest review.
Gracie wakes up in the hospital after a car accident. She remembers nothing and no one. She has a fiance Blake and she is supposed to be married in a few months. How can she marry a stranger? She decides that she doesn't even want to see him until she discovers who she is and if she will remember her life before. She is a different person now and decides to move to her mothers house in the country. In her other life she had the house on the market to sell after her mom passed away. Gracie moves to the flower farm and discovers her new self. Along the way she meets Flynn and starts to question her other life with her fiance Blake. Life is about second chances. I kinda guess what was going on but it was still an enjoyable read.

After a car accident Gracie awakens with her memories gone. She is told she has a fiance, Blake, but refuses to see and speak to him as she is panicked about the world around her. Assisted by her best friend Scarlett she leaves the hospital and moves back into her apartment, while Blake is willing to give her space and stays away. He does write her letters. When Gracie finds her deceased mother has left her a farm, Summerhill, she decides to leave Melbourne and move into the farmhouse.

The cover of the book is beautiful, the writing is beautiful and the story of Gracie trying so hard to live a life without memories is also beautiful. It must be really hard to have no recollection at all about family, friends, your fiance. She is even a different person in certain area's. The only strong memories are about flowers. The flowers her mother cultivated at the farm. And while Gracie builds herself a new life, will there ever be room for Blake? And what about Flynn, her handsome neighbor?

I was swept away by this book. I do think that some things were a bit too convenient to fit the story and not quite believable. Hence the 4 stars. But I loved the author's style and the story.

I requested and received an ARC via Netgalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

Gracie Ashcroft has amnesia after a terrible accident and she finds she cannot return to the life she was reading before her injury. Leaving behind her friends and fiancee, Gracie travels to the flower farm her late mother left her. Gracie begins to love her life, the one she’s living now, and is worried that if her memory returns, she will lose that new life. Is it better to start over and leave the past buried forever? A lovely story about finding a second chance where you least expect it