Stephanie Butland Books in Order

Stephanie Butland recounts her experience of cancer, combining personal stories with the thinking strategies and humor that helped her through treatment. She reflects on maintaining everyday life and finding ways for friends and family to offer support.

Drawing on her own experience, Stephanie Butland explores how life can move beyond cancer survival. Personal stories, practical exercises, and reflections address the physical, emotional, and social changes involved in rebuilding a sense of well-being after treatment.

Elizabeth finds comfort in believing her husband died saving a young woman from drowning. As unanswered questions emerge about that night, her grief becomes entangled with doubt over how well she knew the man she married.

Bettina May rebuilds her life around a village bakery after a disastrous night changes everything. Just as bread-making and a new relationship bring comfort, a visitor connected to her past forces her to revisit what happened fifteen years earlier.

Bookshop employee Loveday Cardew finds books easier to trust than people and carefully conceals her past. A poet, a lover, and three troubling deliveries disturb her refuge, forcing her to confront secrets she has worked to keep hidden.

A lifesaving heart transplant gives twenty-eight-year-old Ailsa Rae a future she hardly dared imagine. Learning to live independently means confronting tensions with her mother, questions about her absent father, and the possibility of loving again after loss.

A feminist exhibition revives interest in a photograph that ended Veronica's career and captured her best friend's death. Looking back on their friendship and political awakening, the reclusive photographer must finally confront the history she has kept silent.

With her York bookshop closed during a crisis, Loveday receives a request from an elderly couple hoping to travel through books. She and her team begin matching customers with reading that helps them face isolation, fear, and loss.

A reading event at a York bookshop brings together four people facing family strain, isolation, old relationships, and hidden truths. Their new connections offer unexpected ways to understand their lives and consider a different direction.

Single mother Kate wants her daughter Daisy's life to be defined by more than cystic fibrosis. As Daisy starts school and Kate considers her own future, a growing connection with a teacher revives the town's judgmental gossip.