After The Lake
by Safaa Mraish
About the book
He was the boy who made her feel alive. Now she’s the girl trying to disappear. One perfect summer by the lake gave Emma and Teddy a love that felt unbreakable, until life pulled them apart. For Teddy, Emma has always been the one. For Emma, that girl is gone, lost after a traumatic event she can’t escape. When Teddy returns, he brings back the warmth she’s tried to forget, and feelings she thought were gone for good. He still sees the girl he loves. Emma isn’t sure she exists anymore. Letting him in means facing the past. Turning away means losing him all over again. A tender, emotionally charged story of first love, loss, and the courage to find your way back to yourself. This is a clean, heartfelt coming of age romance set in the 1980s. You'll feel everything from heartbreak to happiness as you follow Emma and Teddy’s story.
What to expect
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Available as an ebook and in paperback. Ebook ISBN 9781806057399. Paperback ISBN 9781806057405.
About the author
I'm a mother of four and a teacher of English, which means I have spent most of my life in the company of stories — my children's, my students', and the ones people carry quietly without ever quite finding the words for them. It's the ones that resist words that interest me most. My writing explores the spaces between what we feel and what we say: the vulnerability of loving someone who might hurt you, the slow and uneven work of healing, the love that finds you in the places you least expected to be found. I don't write about the big dramatic moments so much as what happens in the silences around them — because that, in my experience, is where the real ones live.
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