IRiS appeals to readers who crave emotionally intelligent literary fiction that doesn't shy away from metaphysical questions. This is for the reader who underlines passages in Maggie Nelson, who stayed up all night finishing The Night Circus, who believes art can genuinely transform consciousness rather than just reflect it.

​

The novel speaks to anyone who's felt like a visitor in their own life, searching for belonging that doesn't require performing a sanitised version of themselves.

 

It is for readers fascinated by reincarnation as a framework for understanding why certain people feel cosmically familiar—why some connections transcend logic and linear time.

​

This book will resonate with women navigating non-traditional relationship structures, who reject the cultural narrative that you must choose one person, one path, one version of yourself.

 

It's for readers who understand that intimacy takes multiple forms, that creative partnership can be as profound as romantic love, and that chosen family often holds us better than blood.

​​​

Stylistically, the novel suits readers who appreciate lyrical prose, intimate, confessional voice, and narratives that trust the reader's intelligence. It's auto-fiction meets speculative literary fiction—deeply personal yet cosmically expansive, grounded in contemporary London whilst spanning ancient Scotland to wartime France to possible futures.

​

Ultimately, IRiS is for anyone who's survived what they thought would destroy them and transformed that survival into something generative.​​

​

​

This is for readers who finish books and immediately want to create something

​​​

 

PRIMARY AUDIENCE:

​

Women who:

​

🌟 Read literary fiction with speculative elements (The Night Circus, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Circe)

🌟 Engage with philosophical questions about identity, belonging, consciousness, and the nature of self

🌟 Appreciate layered narratives that blend realism with mysticism without requiring traditional fantasy world-building

🌟 Value art and creativity as central to human experience, not just decoration or hobby

🌟 Seek stories about chosen family and non-traditional relationship structures

🌟 Are interested in loss, grief, and healing through creative expression

🌟 Enjoy slow-burn, character-driven stories where internal transformation matters as much as external plot

🌟 Appreciate complex female protagonists who are flawed, searching, and actively creating their own belonging

​

​

SECONDARY AUDIENCE:

​

Readers who loved:​

 

📖 Matt Haig's The Midnight Library (speculative element grounded in emotional reality)

​

📖 Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus (art as portal, love across time, magical realism)

​

📖 Madeline Miller's Circe (female transformation, mythology reimagined, finding power)

 

📖 Ali Smith's How to be Both (time-spanning artistic collaboration)

 

📖 Sheila Heti's Pure Colour (grief-to-transcendence philosophy)

​

📖 Maggie Nelson's Bluets (adoption, grief, unconventional love, philosophical memoir)

📖 V.E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (soul-deep connections, time-spanning love, identity)

📖 Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation (fragmented prose, female interiority, relationship complexity)

📖 Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (trauma, queer love, lyrical prose, family wounds)

📖 Melissa Broder's The Pisces (artist processing grief, unconventional relationships, mystical elements)