Nancy Mary

The Boy Who Could Remember Nancy Mary

Thomas O'Brian is a precocious four year old who lives with his parents in Wisconsin. Thomas has quite an imagination. Some of his daytime memories-though unusual-are pleasant: living in Chicago and listening to the water in Lake Michigan (though he's never lived in Chicago). His nightmares are not so pleasant. He wakes up screaming, "He shot me!" from a hospital bed. "Who shot you, Thomas?" asks his mother. Thomas replies, "I did something wrong to the woman in the bed! Her husband--the man shot me!" Thomas is not alone in this life. He is visited, day and night, by a man named Rafael, a renowned Chicago surgeon, who was murdered several years ago. The whole family is affected by Thomas and his "imaginary friend." After mother and son visit a psychiatrist with a wealth of experience working with children and their past lives, Thomas' problems begin to unravel and are finally understood.