Tell Me an Ending

by Jo Harkin · 2022

When a global memory‑erasing clinic sends a shocking email to thousands of former patients—telling them they once chose to delete a traumatic recollection—four strangers must decide whether to reclaim what they forgot. Finn, an Irish architect in the Arizona desert, suspects his wife of infidelity; Mei, a disillusioned graduate in Kuala Lumpur, suddenly recalls a city she’s never visited; William, a retired English police inspector, battles PTSD and a hidden family past; and Oscar, a handsome wanderer with almost no memories, lives in perpetual fear. Their stories intersect with Noor, a psychologist at the clinic, who begins to question the ethics of the technology and the true cost of restoring forgotten pain. Jo Harkin weaves a sleek, speculative thriller that probes the fragility of identity, the allure of forgetting, and the moral weight of memory itself.