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, the world didn’t change - it split. Writing became the only thing that kept me upright, breathing, and connected to her in a world that kept moving without her.
These books aren’t tidy stories about “moving on” or “finding purpose.” They’re raw, honest, sometimes brutal accounts of what it means to love someone who struggled, and to live in a culture that would rather not look directly at suicide.
Each book has its own job:
• A hybrid memoir that blends story, grief science, and the writing tools that helped me survive.
A quiet novel told through the eyes of a dog, exploring love, loss, and the ordinary ways we keep each other going.
A grief workbook offering gentle reflections, writing prompts, rituals, and space to breathe on impossible days.
A truth-telling book dismantling suicide stigma and challenging the stories we've inherited about grief and mental health.
A YA novel for young people who feel too much, say too little, and are searching for hope in the middle of chaos.
But they all share the same promise:
I will tell the truth, so someone standing where I stood feels less alone.
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The Year After Kahlia - Surviving, Loving and Writing My Way Through Loss
A memoir–psychology–writing hybrid for surviving the unthinkable.
The Year After Kahlia isn’t a traditional grief memoir. It’s the story of the twelve months after my daughter died by suicide; interwoven with what was happening in the brain and body, and how writing became the only way I knew to keep living inside a shattered world.
This book blends lived experience, grief science, and guided writing invitations. It’s not about “moving on.” It’s about staying upright, staying human, and finding words when silence is unbearable.
For anyone trying to make sense of grief in their mind, their body, and on the page.
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STAY: A Dog's View of Love, grief and Ordinary Days
A wise, funny, and deeply moving book about love, grief, and ordinary days, told through the voice of a devoted dog.
In Stay, Buster observes human life with clarity, humour, and unwavering loyalty as his family moves through loss, memory, change, and healing. Through short reflections and stories, he offers gentle truths about presence, attachment, sorrow, joy, and the small rituals that keep love alive.
A companion for anyone grieving, loving, or simply trying to stay.
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Tiny Invitations: A Grief Workbook for Impossible Days
Tiny Invitations is a gentle companion for the impossible days, created for the moments when grief feels too heavy to hold alone.
Across 438 full-colour pages, you'll find thoughtful reflections, compassionate writing prompts, simple rituals, grief education, calming colouring pages, and quiet invitations to pause, breathe, remember, and write.
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Silence: The Truth About Suicide and Those Left Behind
Breaking the myths that keep us quiet.
Research, lived experience, and the stories of other bereaved parents converge in a book that refuses to be polite. This one tells the uncomfortable truths: about shame, science, stigma - and what happens to families left holding the pieces. -
Composed Through Chaos
A YA novel about the girl who looks “fine” while falling apart.
Kendel is sixteen, and on the outside, she fits in. On the inside, she’s drowning. When music begins to crack the silence, she’s forced to choose: stay quiet, or risk everything for freedom.