“Both poetic and propulsive, beautifully written and un-put-down-able.”
—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and A Suit or a Suitcase
“Blazingly original. HER KIND will nourish, inspire, and console you—you'll want to stay in it as long as you can.”
—T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls and Whidbey
HER KIND is an exquisite, mist-laced debut novel about friendship and motherhood, fear and love, in which a woman plagued by visions of being pulled away from Earth invites her three closest friends for a weekend, to see who might care for her son if she dies.
When Ada is left to raise her young son alone, she retreats to her otherworldly aunt Leigh’s crumbling lakeside home, seeking solace for herself and stability for Lenny. Yet, among the wildflowers and the hum of the water, Ada can’t escape the nagging feeling she might not have much time left. Sensing death grow nearer, she invites her three closest friends—a brash, unemployed seamstress; a gentle, disillusioned violinist; and a serious painter—to the house over a long weekend to determine which of them might take on the impossible: raising Lenny if she no longer can
Available October 13th, 2026 from Mariner Books at HarperCollins
Sophie Lefens is a writer from Chicago. She has worked in education, advertising and publishing. She is a graduate of Yale Divinity School.