: Re: How can I keep secret a major detail known to the POV protagonist? How do you write a story where the point-of-view character knows something, but you want to keep it a secret from the reader

@Eichhorn147

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The novel Engleby by Sebastian Faulks does this, with a very simple and well known trick.

The novel is about the fallout from the murder of a young woman.
It eventually becomes clear that the narrator is responsible, but the
stress of the event has caused him to suppress the memory of his deed.

You'll have seen similar things done is other novels before, although not usually with the POV character. The author's skill here is in misdirecting the reader and slowly dropping clues as to what's going on.

In short, there are many ways of doing what you want. Doing them in a manner that doesn't feel artificial or stereotypical is, however, difficult.

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