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Imprint: Renard Press
ISBN: 9781804471968
Paperback • 120pp • £10
198 mm x 129 mm
10/02/26
Thema: FS, FBA

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All the Days I Did Not Live

Anna Vaught

ISBN: 9781804471968
Paperback • 120pp
Published 10 February 2026

£10.00

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After the death of her steady, constraining husband, Catherine discovers that grief can be a liberation. With her adult children appalled by her sudden transformations, and a strangely familiar presence in the house urging her on, she begins to test the boundaries of who she might become.

A call arrives on her newly purchased phone – a widower, Alec, still dialling the number once owned by his dead wife. What follows is a transgressive, intoxicating relationship built on longing, lies and the hunger to feel alive. 

All the Days I Did Not Live is a haunting exploration of loneliness, taboo and the dangerous, but delicious, magic of reinvention – where freedom comes at a cost and even the ghosts refuse to stay quiet…

About the author

Anna Vaught is an English teacher, Creative Writing teacher, mentor, editor and author of ten previous books. Her short creative works and features have been widely published, and she has written for the national press and has had a column with The Bookseller, Mslexia and other publications. She is the founder of The Curae, a literary prize for carers, a tutor for Jericho Writers, a freelance mentor, occasional university lecturer, a volunteer with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and campaigns for SEN provision. She has particular interests in magical realism and trauma and literature, psychology and chronic illnesss, subjects in her recent DPhil. She is the mother of three sons, comes from a large Welsh family and lives in Wiltshire.

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