Life After

The book I was supposed to write.

I was offered the chance to write about people who had turned terrible experiences into positive change. It should have been the perfect project. I couldn’t write it.

Purpose had given my pain a direction. It had helped me make a difference. It had not made me whole.

Life After is the book that grew from that question: what else does a meaningful life need?

What we owe. What we give. Who we’re becoming.

The book explores Duty, Purpose and Self as three interlocking parts of a meaningful life. Each needs enough strength to support and restrain the others.

Balance changes with circumstance. It is an active practice, visible in what we protect, refuse, repair, fulfil, build and give.

For readers rebuilding after divorce, grief, illness, job loss, betrayal or another rupture, the book asks what comes after getting through it.

“The meaning of a life is revealed through what we repeatedly choose, refuse, repair, fulfil, build and give.”

From the Life After proposal

Life After is currently in development. Publication details will be shared when they are confirmed.

Also by Emily

We Need to Talk

The Truth About Sexual Violence and My Fight for Justice, published by Mardle in 2023.

Emily’s first book examines her experience of the criminal justice system and the wider failures that leave victims unheard.