In My Next Life

A child’s memories. A woman’s murder. A mystery that refuses to die.  Leah’s life is unravelling. Recently fired from her job in the art world, estranged from her ex-husband (for sleeping with her best friend), and facing a custody battle, she’s struggling to prove she’s stable. Then there’s four-year-old Chloe, who has never called Leah ‘mum’. Instead, Chloe speaks with haunting detail of a life she has never lived: a house with a yellow door, a backyard swing, and a horse named Patches. When a news report revisits the disappearance of a mother and child from the coastal town of Denmark, Western Australia five years ago, Leah is chilled to the core. Chloe’s ‘memories’ mirror the cold case with eerie precision. Driven to debunk the impossible, Leah takes Chloe to the remote shores, only to find a community suspended in grief and suspicion. As she draws closer to the missing woman’s husband – a man still living under a cloud of local blame – Leah’s own grip on reality is called into question. But as Chloe begins to recognise the hidden corners of a house she has never entered, the past presses dangerously into the present. Beneath the town’s picturesque surface lie betrayals that someone is still desperate to protect, and the closer Leah gets to the truth, the real question isn’t whether Chloe lived another life, it’s what or who really ended it.  Leah ignores the dangers to expose the culprit, but will it be too late to reunite with her daughter in this life?