Summary

Chapter 1 takes place in the Spring of 2013 and is told from a third-person omniscient perspective. Catherine is up late at night terrified about a book she is reading. Her husband, Robert, finds her in the bathroom and tries to comfort her but Catherine insists she is fine and will come back to bed soon. The narrator reveals, "Catherine had unwittingly stumbled across herself tucked into the pages of the book" (2). The book Catherine is reading features her as the main character as well as unbelievably detailed descriptions of the clothes she has worn and things she has done. In particular, an unnamed event from years ago has Catherine shaken. Something happened which she has never told anyone about, including her husband, yet it is featured in explicit detail in the book. Catherine walks downstairs in their maisonette, where they had moved only a...