Thread Traveller: A Mythic Novel of Midlife, Mushrooms, and the Magic Beneath

🏆 2026 CANREADS Award Finalist — Women's Fiction

🌟 A Kirkus Best Indie Book of 2025 (Starred Review)

'A strong debut with compelling characters that passionately advocates for community, nature, and found family.' — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)

'In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. Masterful worldbuilding… tragic and harrowing, yet undeniably hopeful.' — CanReads

What if midlife isn't where it ends — but where the magic begins?

At 47, August Monk is failing at everything — her marriage, her company, herself. Then, on a desperate family holiday in England, a sip of ancient beer at Britain's oldest brewery drops her into another world: one where women brew, heal, and commune with a vast fungal network humming beneath their feet — and where they're hunted by a patriarchal order determined to burn them out.

Taken in by Margaret, a midwife guarding forbidden feminine wisdom, August discovers what her own world never told her: the change unmaking her at home — the hot flashes, the rage, the body she no longer recognizes — is the very thing that makes her powerful here. She arrived a failure. She turns out to be exactly what this world has been waiting for.

But the longer she stays, the harder the choice becomes: fight for the found family that finally sees her, or find her way home.

In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin — for readers who loved The Midnight Library, Circe, and Piranesi — Thread Traveller is a luminous debut about parallel worlds, midlife as portal, and the power women gain at the age they're told they've lost value. Book 1 of a trilogy.