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Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Her debut memoir, The Year of Undoing, will be published by Penguin imprint Transworld, born from a Moth story she performed that went viral and gathered millions of views on Instagram and TikTok.
The book challenges glossy notions of transformation, offering instead a raw, irreverent portrait of change: “Change isn’t romantic. It’s muddy, brutal, and, at times, absurd. It’s about undoing. And on the other side? It turns out, there’s you.”
With a voice that is both unflinchingly honest and wryly funny, Salima has built a growing audience who turn to her work for its blend of grit, wit, and warmth. She is currently at work on her first novel.
She lives down a quiet country lane with her family — and Tigger the cat — where her happiest hours are spent by the fire, on the trapeze, or tailing her teenagers.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Her debut memoir, The Year of Undoing, will be published by Penguin imprint Transworld, born from a Moth story she performed that went viral and gathered millions of views on Instagram and TikTok.
The book challenges glossy notions of transformation, offering instead a raw, irreverent portrait of change: “Change isn’t romantic. It’s muddy, brutal, and, at times, absurd. It’s about undoing. And on the other side? It turns out, there’s you.”
With a voice that is both unflinchingly honest and wryly funny, Salima has built a growing audience who turn to her work for its blend of grit, wit, and warmth. She is currently at work on her first novel.
She lives down a quiet country lane with her family — and Tigger the cat — where her happiest hours are spent by the fire, on the trapeze, or tailing her teenagers.
Author: Salima Saxton
Genres: Non-Fiction, Memoir
Salima’s world collapsed on Valentine’s Day 2021, when her husband Carl suffered a severe breakdown.
Her Moth story about what happened next, reached over 1 million people on Instagram, becoming one of the most watched Moth Stories since its inception in 1997, and forming the basis of this book. It’s incredibly powerful, moving and authentic and I urge you to watch it before reading on.
THE YEAR OF UNDOING is the story of a family breaking under the weight of ambition, financial pressure and generational ghosts. Exploring how holding it all together will inevitably make everything fall apart, it’s about what happens when life forces you to strip back and start again—not by becoming someone new, but by undoing everything that wasn’t really you in the first place.
This is not a nature memoir. It ends in Essex. Uprooting the family to her childhood home steeped in complicated history offered neither redemption nor resolution. Witty, raw, and deeply relatable, this is a bold, unfiltered account of unravelling and rebuilding, urging the reader to tune out the noise and instead pay attention to that quieter voice underneath, the one that’s always been there. Coming home to yourself.