Author: Salima Saxton
Genres: Non-Fiction, Memoir
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.
Author: Salima Saxton
Genres: Non-Fiction, Memoir
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.
Doubleday (PRH)
January 2027
