Kind of cruel (Sophie Hannah)

When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn»t expect that anything much will change.

She doesn»t expect it to help with her chronic insomnia . . .

She doesn»t expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: »Kind, cruel, kind of cruel» – words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where . . .

She doesn»t expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she»s never heard of . . .