It started with a crush. It unraveled into something much messier. A sharp, funny, and quietly devastating story about friendship, betrayal, and the secrets we carry...

It started with a crush. It unraveled into something much messier. A sharp, funny, and quietly devastating story about friendship, betrayal, and the secrets we carry into adulthood.

Rachel is a bookish college student navigating a chaotic coming-of-age in 2010s Ireland. When she falls into an intense friendship with the magnetic James, the two become inseparable, until a tangled affair with a married professor sets off a chain of secrets, heartbreak, and revelations.

This is a novel about the messiness of youth, the politics of power and desire, and the kind of friendships that define you, even if they don't survive you.

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📗 In The Mood For…

Understanding Myself
What begins as a love story slowly reveals itself as a reckoning—with identity, desire, and the ache of growing up.
✅ Deeply introspective, both tender and raw
✅ Asks: Who am I when I'm not being watched?

Feeling Seen
Captures the messy truth of early adulthood, especially for those navigating queerness, class, and confusion.
✅ Emotionally specific and culturally resonant
✅ For anyone who’s ever felt on the outside, looking in

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📘 Stories About…

Becoming & Belonging
Rachel is figuring out who she is, what she wants, and where she fits in friendships, in love, and in the world.
✅ Coming-of-age with complexity and nuance
✅ Unfolds in a time of personal and political transition

Power & Resistance
A quiet but pointed critique of gender, class, and academic power structures, wrapped inside a very personal tale.
✅ Shows how power hides in relationships
✅ Personal betrayal meets systemic imbalance