EGO DEATH

About the book

The Proxy is paid to become other people. A missing son for an ageing mother. A dead husband for a widow. A father who will never give the apology his daughter needs. He studies photographs, memories, habits and failures until, for a few hours, he can give someone back the person they lost. Then David Vale makes an unusual request: he wants a week off being David. Seven days. His house. His routines. His family. His relationships. The Proxy steps into the life and discovers something uncomfortable: he may be better at being David than David ever was. And when the week ends, the boundaries do not return with it. Darkly funny, unsettling and painfully human, EGO DEATH is a psychological thriller about identity, performance, responsibility and the stories people construct in order to live with themselves.