Maggie should be living life to the full. She should be travelling the world, jumping out of planes, skiing in the mountains. Everything she dreamed of doing. But a year ago she fell ill and needed a heart transplant, losing all her confidence. This new heart is a gift, and Maggie believes that the best way to honour it is to be careful, cautious, safe. Then something impossible happens. Maggie wakes up one morning in a flat that’s not her own, in pyjamas that aren’t her own and when she l...

A gorgeous Edinburgh-set uplifting story of impossible love and making every day count. Following a heart transplant, Maggie finds herself living the life of her donor, giving her another chance at life... and love.'I absolutely adored it' EMMA COOPER'A love song to Edinburgh . . . simply gorgeous' PERNILLE HUGHES'A truly unique love story' JANE CRITTENDEN'Beautifully written' REBECCA R...

In her debut short story collection, Myths & Monsters, Emma Steel takes the familiar scaffolding of fairy tales, folklore, and myth and dismantles it from the inside out. From a darkly reimagined Pinocchio haunting the Black Forest to a tooth fairy whose ambition curdles into something grotesque, Steel's stories inhabit the space where the whimsical and the deeply unsettling collide. Divided into two sections, Myths and Monsters, the collection asks a pointed question: what separates the l...

Robbie and Jenn are meant to be. They've finally reconciled after eight months spent apart and both know that, this time, it's forever. But forever might not be as long as they think. As a truck hurtles towards their car on their way home, Robbie is thrown back into Jenn's past and he finds himself spectator in the most important moments of her life – golden moments from her childhood and heart-breaking ones from her teenage years; her exhausting time at med school and just where she's bee...