WHY THESE BOOKS EXIST
I didn’t set out to write books about grief and suicide.
I set out to survive them.
When my daughter Kahlia died by suicide in April 2024, writing became one of the ways I stayed upright, stayed connected to her, and tried to understand a world that had split in two.
These books grew from that place.
They aren’t about moving on, finding a silver lining, or turning loss into purpose. They tell the truth about grief, make room for the things we struggle to say aloud, and offer company for days that can feel impossibly lonely.
Different books. Different ways in.
All born from the same belief: grief deserves honesty, understanding, and somewhere to go.
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The Year After Kahlia - Surviving, Loving and Writing My Way Through Loss
A memoir, grief psychology and writing hybrid for surviving the unthinkable.
The Year After Kahlia is the story of the twelve months after my daughter died by suicide, interwoven with what was happening in my brain and body, and how writing became one of the ways I survived a world I no longer recognised.
It blends lived experience, grief science and guided writing invitations. It isn’t about “moving on”. It’s about what grief actually does to us, how we keep living alongside it, and what happens when love remains but the person we love is gone.
For anyone trying to understand grief from the inside.
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STAY: A Dog's View of Love, grief and Ordinary Days
A wise, funny and deeply moving story about love, grief and the ordinary ways we keep each other going.
Told through the eyes of Buster, STAY watches humans do what humans do rather badly sometimes: love each other, lose each other, make a mess of things, and somehow keep going.
Through short reflections and stories, Buster notices the things we often miss, presence, attachment, sorrow, joy, memory, and the small rituals that make an ordinary life matter.
For anyone who needs a gentler way into grief, or simply a good dog beside them for a while.
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Tiny Invitations: A Grief Workbook for Impossible Days
A gentle place to put some of what you’re carrying.
Tiny Invitations is a 438-page full-colour grief workbook created for the days when grief feels too heavy, too strange, too complicated, or simply too much.
Inside are reflections, writing invitations, grief education, simple rituals, colouring pages and small ways to pause, remember, breathe and put words around what hurts.
There is nothing to complete, achieve or get right. Open it where you need it. Leave it when you’ve had enough. Come back when you want to.
For the days when you need somewhere for your grief to go.
SOME BOOKS GIVE US ANSWERS.
Some simply sit beside us while we live the questions.
These are the books I needed when my world changed.
