Thread Traveller

?? 2026 CANREADS Award Finalist — Women's Fiction ? Named 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. Beautifully narrated by Naomi Rose-Mock, Thread Traveller is an immersive listen — in the vein of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, for listeners who loved The Midnight Library, Circe, and Piranesi. 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.