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Cover of Take Me Home by Mikaela Stamataki: a painting of a woman leaning on the back of a wooden chair, a long table and empty chairs behind her.
Back cover of Take Me Home, designed as the back of a stretched canvas with a gallery label from The Woods Gallery and the book description.
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Forthcoming debut · Literary fiction

Take Me Home

Nothing disappears while someone remembers it.

Jane Carter paints portraits because she believes every life deserves to be remembered.

When an unexpected opportunity arrives, the future she has imagined begins to shift in ways she never anticipated.

Tender, quietly devastating, and deeply human, Take Me Home is a novel about memory, belonging, and the people who become home to us.

Genre
Literary fiction
Format
Paperback, 140 × 216 mm
Publication
To be announced
From the author

Take Me Home is not my story, and Jane is not me.

But pieces of me live inside every character.

I understand Jane’s need to create beauty in places that only she can see. I understand Julian’s habit of making room for everybody else until there is very little room left for himself. I understand Isla’s instinct to carry the weight of a family while quietly setting aside her own. And I understand Viktor’s way of loving, with his whole heart, even when words fail him.

This book is for the ones still trying to find their way home.

Mikaela Stamataki

The whole canvas

Back, spine and front.

The cover wraps all the way round: the painting on the front, my name down the spine, and on the back, the reverse of a stretched canvas with its gallery label.

The full cover of Take Me Home laid flat: the back of a canvas with a gallery label, the spine, and the painted front cover.
Works in progress

Two more on the way.

In progressHoney, You’re Familiar
In progressLetters from Kiko

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