Smoke and Pancakes: grief and healing story women's fiction heartwarming homecoming contemporary novel

Author:   Laura Carpenter
Publisher:   Independently Published
ISBN:  

9798241528773


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   28 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Smoke and Pancakes: grief and healing story women's fiction heartwarming homecoming contemporary novel


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Some love stories aren't rebuilt from memory. They're rebuilt from choice. When a house fire on a quiet Belfast street brings firefighter Peter O'Callaghan face-to-face with the woman he once loved, he doesn't recognise her. Or the children watching him from the pavement. Or the life he apparently walked away from. Evie remembers everything. They were together for ten years, from the time they were teenagers. They built a home, raised children, learned each other's rituals. And then Peter left for work one ordinary day-and never came back. A traumatic accident stole years of his memory, and with it, the shared history Evie still carries alone. Now Peter is back, trying to make sense of a life he doesn't remember and a love he no longer owns. Evie isn't interested in grand apologies or sudden declarations. She has rules now. Boundaries. A home built on quiet routines, Sunday pancakes, and the hard-won knowledge that love without safety isn't love at all. As Peter begins to show up-carefully, imperfectly, without promises he can't keep-something fragile starts to take shape. Not the past. Something new. Something earned. Smoke and Pancakes is a tender, emotionally layered second-chance romance about amnesia, accountability, and the slow work of rebuilding trust. Set in Belfast and grounded in domestic realism, it's a story about found family, consent, and choosing care over spectacle. Because sometimes healing isn't remembering what you lost. It's learning how to stay.

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Author:   Laura Carpenter
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9798241528773


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   28 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

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