Thread Traveller

By: Youens, Annabel

�� 2026 CANREADS Award Finalist - Women's Fiction⭐ Kirkus Best Indie Book of 2025 (Starred Review)"A strong debut with compelling characters that passionately advocates for community, nature, and found family" Kirkus Starred Review ★"⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin." CanReads Review

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1069512206
• ISBN13: 9781069512208
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Salt Line Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"