Overview

Reading September is a haunting literary novel about two girls separated by centuries and united by a secret diary —and by pain.

When Elizabeth, a fourteen-year-old girl lost in her own darkness, finds the diary of a Victorian girl named September, she begins to read herself inside it. The past and the present blur; the wounds of two lives begin to echo. In September's drawings, Elizabeth finds beauty, cruelty, and the unbearable tenderness of forbidden love.

What begins as curiosity becomes revelation. Through the eyes of an old librarian and the ghost of a girl who was never allowed to grow up, Elizabeth will confront her own shadows —and decide whether to keep breathing or to become another page in September's book.

A novel about memory, trauma, and the fragile miracle of surviving yourself.

Lyrical, raw, and profoundly human, Reading September is an unforgettable story for readers who loved The Virgin Suicides, The Bell Jar, and A Little Life.